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OREGON 

—a Newspaper Reference Book 


Compiled and published by the 

Portland Press Club 


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HIS volume is primarily a publisher’s utility book—a 
work of reference wherein may be found in correct form 
the basic facts regarding Oregon, its institutions and 
men of note and substantial achievement, as well as 
younger men, whose careers are certain, yet still in the 
making, together with halftones from the latest photographs. 

Modern newspapers and periodicals attach great importance to 
illustration; in fact, most editors regard it as of equal importance 
with news. 

Newspapers require pictures of persons and places for reproduction 
with current happenings. Although they exhaust every resource to 
secure up-to-date photographs, they often are compelled to reprint 
old style line cuts or wash drawings, and in the majority of cases have 
no picture at all. 

The facts regarding men are often jumbled owing to the necessity 
of gathering them from whatever source available on a moment’s 
notice. 

This work will be the ready reference book of the newspaper editor, 
writer and artist. 

Copies of it will be supplied free of cost by the Portland Press Club 
to representative newspapers and National Periodicals throughout 
the entire United States. 



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The Portland Press Club 

By William H. Galvani 
Librarian and Historian 


HE PORTLAND PRESS CLUB—successor 
to the old-time press organizations of this city— 
came into being in the convention room of the 
old Imperial Hotel on August 6, 1910, but only 
after an armistice between the “Journal crowd” 
and “the other crowd” (the Oregonian men), 
was successfully arranged when the belligerents manfully 
striving under the said banners, were brought together through 
the fine diplomatic manipulations of the late Joe Carll, an 
artist on the Oregonian, who was mightily supported in his 
peace program by “Jim” Tyler, Clarke Leiter, “Jack’ Travis. 
Fred Bell, “Bill” Petrain, “Colonel” Harrison, Carl Kelty. 
“Cap” Smith and George Keller. A treaty of peace guaran¬ 
teeing the future interests of all newspaper men, without dis¬ 
tinction of race, creed or previous condition, was duly signed, 
sealed and placed safely among the archives. As a result, room 
80S, in the Merchants Trust building was rented, and the 
same is now duly recorded in history as the first headquarters 
of the club. A big show was soon given and. behold the 
miracle! The club moved into its present fine quarters in the 
Elks’ building and celebrated that great event on February 
22, 1911. 

The club began its career with about 85 charter members 
and the following officers: 

President, Sydney B. Vincent, of the Associated Press; first 
vice president, Edward L. Moriarity, city editor of the Daily 
News; second vice-president, Lute Pease, editor of the Pacific 
Monthly; third vice-president, O. C. Leiter, city editor of the 
Morning Oregonian; secretary, Mark Woodruff, of the Ore¬ 
gonian staff; treasurer, James S. Tyler, news editor of the 
Oregon Journal; executive committee, Will G. MacRae, editor 
of the Sketch; John J. Harrison, editor of the Portland 
Carman, and P. E. Sullivan, editor of the Catholic Sentinel, 
and historian, N. J. Levison, Sunday editor of the Oregonian. 

The membership, which consists of active, associate, hon¬ 
orary and life, has now reached about 1000. The active mem¬ 
bership consists of newspapermen in actual service, with some 
very few “has beens,” who for divers and sundry reasons have 
been honorably discharged and placed on the retired list, but 
subject to call. The associate membership is made up largelv 
of professional and business men, while to the class of hon¬ 
orary and life membership, either active or associate may 
aspire. 

The Portland Press Club has always taken a very active 
part in civic affairs. It has successfully entertained many 
men of highest national and international reputation, includ¬ 
ing the three last presidents, and many prominent leaders of 
thought and action, as, for instance—Fra Elbertus and 
“Fightin’ ” Bob Evans; also several colonels—such as “Buf¬ 
falo Bill’ (W. F. Cody), Theodore Roosevelt, Colonel Bryan 
and a large number of others who so often and so eloquently 
point to their records with pride. 

Among the well known professional men and women who 


joined at different times in the effort to entertain the mem¬ 
bership of the club and their invited guests, one may find the 
names of such as Grace Cameron, Alice Lloyd, George Prim¬ 
rose, Rose Bloch Bauer, the great Pelham Ray Samuels, the 
Orpheus Male Chorus, Dillon & King, Josephine Cohan and 
Fred Niblo, Rube Dickinson, Bess Stokes, Leona Frances, Roy 
Dietrich, Reno Vivienne, Myrtle De Loy and many other well 
known artists in the theatrical world, including a long list of 
local talent, among whom are some that will in time achieve 
nation-wide reputation. 

The Portland Press Club has thus established for itself an 
unusual place among its membership and their friends; its 
magnificent headquarters—a large lounging room with easy 
chairs, most comfortable lounges and fine piano, its library 
and dining room looking onto what in provincial times we 
called Seventh street, but now in these metropolitan days is 
known as Broadway; its billiard room and other desirable ap¬ 
purtenances—all constitute a joy forever to any one with red 
blood in his veins. Then, too, we must not forget the occasional 
and glorious exploits in the domain of High Jinks—whether it 
be sometime on “A Night Off” or somewhere on a “Katzen- 
yammer Kruise”—all of which hath much to do with the busi¬ 
ness, happiness and contentment in this world, if not in any 
other. These and many other features about the which the 
advent of woman suffrage in the wild west doth not permit 
us any longer to extol, give our mystic institution a most 
unique place in our great city, if not in the Northwest. 

Beginning with the entrance of the good old U. S. into 
Europe’s recent unpleasantness, the affairs (financial, of 
course) of the Portland Press Club became rather critical. 
This condition with the progress of enlistments—voluntary or 
selective—became gradually worse, and as the doctors (of 
medicine, of course), would say, we were growing rather weak, 
very weak, indeed. But praise be to the jolly good Bills (the 
Elks of Portland Lodge No. 142) who stood by us as loyally 
as Britain s first one hundred thousand, we weathered the 
storm. In the meantime the great world war came to an end. 
some of the old-timers came back to us, and with them came 
also our old war horse, Clarke Leiter—one of the best of the 
original organizers of the Press Club—and we called him to 
the presidency thereof. He heeded the call—began his min¬ 
istry—and lo! and behold! The Portland Press Club is once 
more in fine shape, growing mightily by leaps and bounds, 
and everything ahead of us points to a far-famed future—in 
this world, of course. 

P. S.: lo you, the kindly disposed or gently inclined reader 

whoever he or she be—I beg herewith to most humbly 
apologize for my unpardonable failure to give honorable men¬ 
tion in the herein above story to our soft drink parlor, which, 
alas! hath seen better and more prosperous days. Though it 
no longer speaketh with its most miraculous organ, yet how the 
memory thereof doth linger among the craft—old or young' 
Dictum sapienti sat est —which an our Jingo is the same as 
’nough said. 










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O. C. LEITER 

President Portland Press Club 





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Higher Education Must Be Supported 


f I ^HE press of Oregon, as well as the business 
and industry of the state, has a great deal 
at stake in the Educational Tax Bill which is to 
be submitted to the voters at the special elec¬ 
tion on May 21. The conditions at the Uni¬ 
versity of Oregon and at the Oregon Agricul¬ 
tural College may fairly be described as des¬ 
perate, owing to an enrollment which for a con¬ 
siderable number of years has been steadily out¬ 
growing equipment, piling up large arrearages 
to be faced now at the end of the war. Then, 
just as the coming of peace brought in a still 
greater influx of students, the rise in prices cut 
the purchasing power of the institutions’ income 
squarely in half. 

The press’ power to aid in tire upbuilding of 
the state depends almost entirely upon its 
power to tell an honest story of real advantages 
to attract settlers and capital. The type of set¬ 
tler we want most to bring to Oregon is repre¬ 
sented by the type of man who has something 
to contribute to the state, who will bring with 
him some fair amount of material possessions, 
who is sane and intelligent, and ambitious for 
himself and his family. This type is uniformly 
particular about facilities for education; he is 
more apt to go to a state where he can do well 
by his children. If the millage bill does not 
pass, Oregon will be notoriously inferior from 
his point of view to either Washington or Cali¬ 
fornia. 


If Oregon cannot offer at least average facili¬ 
ties for education, the state’s growth will suffer 
a setback for years, and state pride will have 
difficulty in maintaining that Oregon is a good 
place to settle, a progressive place to do busi¬ 
ness, a desirable state in which to live and bring 
up a family. 


The cost of education, of course, under any 
circumstances amounts to something. The addi¬ 
tion of $1.25 per thousand of assessed valua¬ 
tion—about 50 cents per thousand of market 
value—will not bring the total up to what most 
progressive states are paying. It is less than 
some states spent even before the war and is 
not great in proportion to the tremendous benefit 
to the state of saving its institutions from going to pieces. 

Oregon education has, up to this year, been good, but this 
has been accomplished on a very narrow margin. Both institu¬ 
tions are facing a deficit this year; the University has already 
ceased buying books for its library; at the examinations last 
month it had not chairs enough for its regular examination 
schedule, and this is only typical of conditions at both institu¬ 
tions. They cannot by any possibility, without relief from the 
state, continue to maintain even their present staffs and educate 
even the present number of students through he fall term be¬ 
ginning in October. On October 1 they must deny education 
to hundreds of young people, and these, in turn, cannot seek 
relief by going to other states because, while many of the 
other states are preparing adequately for the future, scarcely 
any will catch up with their own needs for some years. 


AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 

The University, preparing its hundreds of young men for 
journalism, business, medicine, education and other helpful 
occupations, the Agricultural College, constantly instilling 
new life and prosperity into Oregon’s agricultural, engineering 
industries, forestry and other lines, are an immense factor 
in the high standing Oregon has up to this time maintained in 
the minds of intelligent people throughout the country. The 
forward-looking influence of these institutions is quietly and 
effectively at work everywhere within the state’s borders, al¬ 
ways working for intelligence, sanity, and prosperitv. 

Every man who cares for the future, who can see his own 
and his family’s advantage more than a few months ahead, 
ought to make every effort for the passage of the Educational 
Millage Bill on May 21. 











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Oregon Agricultural College 



T HE Oregon Agricultural College, the crowning institution 
of the state’s rapidly developing system of industrial edu¬ 
cation, comprises the three grand divisions ot work character¬ 
istic of the land grant colleges of the country; namely, resi¬ 
dent instruction, experiment station, and extension service. 

The resident instruction work, which comprises eight 
schools with fifty-five departments, enrolled on March 1, 1920, 
3348 long course students, approximately 3000 of whom were 
studying for baccalaureate degrees. The schools include ag¬ 
riculture with 854 students; engineering, with 866 students; 
mining, with 90 students; commerce, with 635; home Econ¬ 
omics, with 542; forestry, with 88; pharmacy, with 167, spe¬ 
cial and miscellaneous, 106. Students who major in vocation¬ 
al education secure their degrees in the schools enumerated 
above, where they take their technical studies. The school of 
vocational education prepares especially tor Smith-Hughes po¬ 
sitions in the public schools. Nearly 1500 students in addition 
to those enumerated have been enrolled 'n summer school or 
winter short courses. The student enrollment represents every 
county in Oregon, thirty-three other states, and eleven foreign 
countries. Enrollment has increased 101 percent since 1915 
and 206 percent since 1910. The college is now second largest 
agricultural and mechanical college in the country, being sur¬ 
passed in enrollment only by Iowa State College. 

Experiment Stations Maintained 

The experiment station comprises twelve departments at 
Corvallis and seven branch stations located at strategic agri 
cultural positions throughout the state. It articulates its work 
with the instruction of students on the campus and with exten¬ 
sion activities in the field, to the great advantage of both. Its 
discoveries have been instrumental in contributing vast wealth 
to the state and nation. It discovered lime-sulfur spray, now 
universally used against diseases and pests of fruit trees. It 
discovered the value of sulfur as a fertilizer for alfalfa in 



Southern Oregon, thereby adding over $300,000 in 1919 alone 
to the value of the alfalfa crop. It has increased egg produc¬ 
tion in Oregon until the state and the O. A. C. stock are fa¬ 
mous the world over. It has recently issued the results of re¬ 
searches in plant nutrition that scientists have declared to be 
“one of the outstanding products of the age in the field of 
plant industry.” 

Extension Service Complete 

The extension service comprises the work of the county 
agents and home demonstration agents in cooperation with the 
farm bureaus throughout the state, the boys’ and girls’ club 
work in cooperation with the state department of education, 
the extension schools in dairying, horticulture, animal hus¬ 
bandry, poultry husbandry, farm crops, irrigation and drain¬ 
age, farm mechanics, homemaking, child nutrition, etc. All 
the work of the extension service is designed to carry scientific 
instruction to the people in all parts of the state, with a view 
to increasing their income, their conveniences, and their happi¬ 
ness. Through such means as cooperative marketing and the 
destruction of crop pests, the extension service often saves 
directly large sums of money. The Burns Commercial Club, 
for instance, declares that the grasshopper campaign of 1919 
saved half a million dollars to Harney county. 




























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North Pacific College 



N ORTH Paci¬ 
fic College 
has departments 
of pharmacy and 
dentistry. Its ob¬ 
ject is the train¬ 
ing of young 
men and women 
for successful 
professional ca¬ 
reers. The col¬ 
lege was organ¬ 
ized and received 
its charter from the State of Oregon as a school of dentistry 
in 1898. From the first it made remarkable progress, attaining 
pre-eminence in its special field of higher education, qualifying 
its graduates to become skilled practitioners who take their 
places among the successful men of the world. In 1908 the 
scope of the college was enlarged and a department of phar¬ 
macy was created. The college has a corps of thirty teachers 
and an additional force of lecturers and instructors. 

It may safely be said that no school in America has better 
facilities for the training of young men and women for suc¬ 
cessful professional careers. 

The rapid advance made by North Pacific College among 
the educational institutions of America is shown by the fact 
that more than half of the American states are represented in 
the student body, in addition to most of the Canadian prov¬ 
inces and several foreign countries. 

The high standard established by this institution- the pro¬ 
fessional ability and enviable position occupied by its alumni, 
the high character of its instructors and the excellent equip¬ 
ment of the school have resulted in such rapid growth that 
new buildings specially suited to its requirements became a 
necessity. 


THE COLLEGE BUILDING 

In order that the splendid growth might continue and the 
usefulness of the college be increased, a half block of land was 
purchased on East Sixth Street, between Pacific and Oregon, 
the center of population in Portland, and a new Class A fire¬ 
proof building of pure classic architecture has been erected on 
the south half of the property which is equal to the best yet 
constructed in America, or elsewhere, as a home for instruction 
in dentistry and pharmacy. The location is convenient to 
libraries, clubs, large business houses and public buildings, 
which contribute so much to the life of the student. 

The structure covers a quarter block, has floor space of 
more than an acre and will accommodate eight hundred stu¬ 
dents. It is one of the best lighted buildings on the Pacific 
Coast, a flood of light streaming in on every side 

The new hospital for patients requiring work in oral sur¬ 
gery and correction of deformities is open to the public. The 
equipment is the latest and most approved. 

EQUIPMENT 

The equipment of North Pacific College is entirely modern. 
Many of the appliances and fixtures were designed and made 
especially for this school, making an equipment excellent for 
teaching dentistry in all its branches, and unsurpassed by any 
dental school. 

Each year sees valuable additions to equipment and appara¬ 
tus of the newest type, unsurpassed in adaptation to the needs 
of the student. A large amount of money has been expended 
in equipping the various laboratories, from the expensive 
X-Ray apparatus, the abundant supply >>f microscopes from 
the most famous factory in Europe, to the delicate instruments 
for use in oral surgery. 


The main clinic, comprising ten thousand square feet, has 
the most modern and perfect equipment for the use of stu¬ 
dents. This is supplemented by a well-appointed surgery witli 
two operating rooms, located on the second floor of the build¬ 
ing, opening at one end into a large clinical amphitheatre, and 
at the other end into the hospital for patients requiring work 
in oral surgery and the correction of deformities. Expense 
has not been spared in designing and equipping these with the 
latest approved appliances that modern science has evolved. 

The annual session starts in October, and students are re¬ 
quired to enter at that time. Graduates of accredited high 
schools or academies are admitted. The dentistry course is 
four years. Pharmacy courses are two and three years. The 
length of the annual session is eight months. 


Hill Military Academy 

“ \ SCHOOL FOR YOUR BOYS.” By this term the Hill 
Military Academy, Portland, is known not only through¬ 
out the Northwest, but in many other states where former 
students of the academy have made their mark in the commu- 
ity. Hill Military Academy graduates have won honors in the 
leading colleges and universities of the country, in the various 
professions and in business, as well as in service in the recent 
war. 

The Hill Military Academy was founded in 1901, by Dr. 
J. W. Hill of the class of ’78, Yale, who from 1878 to 1901 
had been lessee and manager of the Bishop Scott Academy 
of Portland. 

For several years the management of the academy has been 
in charge of Joseph Adams Hill, son of the founder, who, by 
his business ability, has enlarged the scope of the institution 
and it now has government equipment and is recognized as a 
school of the best standing. It is under the government in¬ 
spection and its cadets have been commended by the official 
inspector for the 12th district. The school is accredited by 
leading institutions of learning and its training has been 
praised by army men and educators alike. Its main building 
or barracks includes class rooms, dormitories, a large drill hall 
or armory and the offices. The younger cadets, those in the 
primary grades, are housed in a separate building, a hand¬ 
some residence at North 24th and Johnson streets, and the 
cadet officers have quarters in another residence hall, both 
buildings being near the main building. The social features 
are important. Military hops, formal balls, fancy costume 
parties and receptions are held with the faculty, officers and 
cadets as hosts and these festivities are attended by the young 
girls of the prominent families of Portland. The younger 
boys have parties, also, in their residence hall, which is known 
as Hill Military Junior Annex. At all of the parties promin¬ 
ent matrons and patronesses and a formal presentation of the 
guests to the hostesses and chaperons follows the grand march 
and is a feature of each dance. The cadets are not permitted 
to take the girls to the parties or escort them home, but all 
guests must be properly chaperoned to and fro. 

Military affairs are under the direction of a commandant 
who is an officer in the U. S.army, and a resident commander 
who directs the cadet officers. There is keen rivalry among the 
various companies for honors when inspection and competitive 
drills are held. 


Oregon has more varieties of 
than any state in the U. S. 
and Yellow Fir—Spruce—Port 
are leading varieties. 


wood in commercial quantities 
Sugar and Yellow Pine—Red 
Orford Cedar and Redwood 













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Mt. Angel College 

M T. Angel College is situated on the crest of Mt. Angel a 
beautiful gently sloping hill, which rises to a height of 
300 feet above the surrounding fertile plain, which is diver¬ 
sified by fields, meadows, groves and orchards. Mt. Angel 
is 40 miles south of Portland, 14 miles northeast of Salem. 

It affords a magnificent view of the snow-capped mountains 
of Oregon and Washington to the north, the long chain of 
the Cascade Range on the east, the Coast Range on the west, 
and the Waldo Hills with St. Mary’s Peak on the south. 

St. Anselm’s Little Seminary is conducted in connection 
with Mt. Angel College, and has for its object to instruct 
boys and young men in the various branches of the Classical 



Course and to give them a preparatory training for the priest¬ 
hood. The seminarians attend recitations in the college, but 
they have their own study-hall, recreation room and dormi¬ 
tories in a separate wing of the building. 

St. Thomas’ Grand Seminary is intended for advanced stu¬ 
dents of the Ecclesiastical Course—Philosophy, and Theology. 

To begin the study of Philosophy it is necessary to have 
completed the Classical Course (five years of Latin.) 

The College and Seminary are built entirely of native gray 
stone. They afford most comfortable accomodations for two 
hundred and fifty students. The buildings are fitted through¬ 
out with the most approved systems of sanitary plumbing, 
heating and ventilation, which together with the natural 
advantages of location, assure the best possible conditions for 
the health and comfort of the students. 

The Infirmary is conveniently arranged for the care and 
comfort of the sick. Two cheerful rooms, 27 feet square, with 
attendant’s room between, are provided with the necessary 
appliances. 

The two dormitories are in charge of the Benedictine Sis¬ 
ters, and are kept in excellent condition. Each student is 
provided with a neat and comfortable single bed, wardrobe 
and toilet case. 

The dining hall is large, cheerful and neatly decorated. 
The meals are substantial and plentiful, most of the supplies 
for the table are being furnished fresh from the farm attached 
to the Benedictine Monastery. Sisters have charge of the 
kitchen. The farm consists of 2,000 acres, and includes tract¬ 
ors, trucks and all other farm equipment. Truck gardens, 
fruit trees, poultry and a dairy are included. 

Realizing the usefulness, or practical necessity, of collec¬ 
tions of specimens of Natural History for effective class work, 
especially in the study of the natural sciences, the college has 
always been anxious to collect and preserve whatever might 
prove useful. A spacious room in the new College building 


has been set aside for a museum. Show cases, allowing a full 
display of the material collected, have been installed and 
contain rocks, minerals, ores, geological specimens, birds’ eggs 
and nests, insects, marine shells, Indian curios and implements, 
etc. The institution is also in possession of an herbarium, 
comprising approximately 1,500 plants, in about equal num¬ 
bers from Oregon, the Atlantic States and Europe. 

The Physical Cabinet is well furnished with all the appli¬ 
ances necessary for a thorough practical and theoretical know¬ 
ledge of this ever-advancing science. Within the last few 
years a large number of very valuable instruments, such as 
dynamos, motors, coils,' X-ray apparatus, models of engines, 
microscopes, phonographs, etc., have been purchased, all of 
which insure the practical illustration of the principles of 
physics, mechanics and electrical engineering. 

Adjacent to the college is the headquarters of the Benedic¬ 
tine Press—the largest private printing plant west of Chicago. 
The office is equipped with modern machinery, and the ar¬ 
rangements are so excellent that every employe, from the 
editors down, works under almost ideal conditions. 

In this plant the Mt. Angel Magazine, the Pacific Star and 
St. Joseph’s Blatt are published. These publications have a 
circulation of aboul 75,000, reaching corners of the world. 
The Mt. Angel Magazine alone has 40 000 circulation, and 
sells at $1.50 a year. The Star is a school paper published 
quarterly. The St. Joseph’s Blatt is printed in German. 

The institution has two libraries, one of which is in the 
college for the special use of the students. The works in the 
library cover nearly every department of science and literature. 

The teachers’ library proper is especially for the professors 
and advanced students, and at present contains more than 
20,000 volumes, a great many of them of rare value. The 
library is kept in a separate wing. 

The facilities and opportunities which Mt. Angel College 
offers to its pupils for the cultivation of musical talent are 
not equaled by any institution in the West. The college is 
fully equipped with a number of pianos, organs, and, in fact, 
all modern musical instruments; and the musical library 
contains the works of most of the great masters of the classic 
and modern eras. The several excellent and well-trained 
musical organizations are the best evidences of the efficiency 
and qualifications of the professors of music. 

While using all diligence to afford a true, solid moral and 
intellectual education, Mt. Angel College deems it also of 
great importance not to neglect bodily exercise The gym¬ 
nasium, 129 by 60 feet, contains, besides large departments 
for senior and junior students, a handball alley, an elevated 
banked running track, fine needle showers and a newly 
equipped office for the director of athletics, a billiard room, 
reading rooms, etc. It is needless to say that it is provided 
with all appliances necessary for physical training. 

The play grounds are extensive and comprise everything 
that could be desired to furnish amusement as well as health¬ 
ful exercise, so necessary for the healthful development of 
mind and body. 

Mt. Angel College, conducted by the Benedictine Fathers, 
was founded in the year 1887, by the Rt. Rev. Adelhelm Oder- 
matt, O. S. B., with the approbation of His Grace. Most Rev. 
Archbishop Wm. H. Gross, D. D. By act of the legislature, 
the institution was granted a charter, with power to confer 
the usual academic honors. The rapid increase of students 
soon necessitated the erection of a more spacious building. In 
the following year the seminary was opened for the training 
of candidates for the priesthood. On May 3, 1892 the mon¬ 
astery and the seminary buildings were destroyed by fire. Al¬ 
though a heavy loss was sustained, the magnificent new build¬ 
ings were immediately constructed. 

Father Martin, O. S. B., was made president of the col¬ 
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St. Helen’s Hall, School for Girls 

S T. HELEN’S HALT., a boarding and day school for 
girls, is now in its fifty-first year. It is located in a 
fine campus on the lower heights, occupying a whole block 
at Thirteenth and Montgomery streets. From thirty to 
forty resident pupils can be provided for and a large 
number of day pupils. 

There are airy, well-lighted class rooms, tennis courts, a 
spacious playing field, and an outdoor gymnasium. The 
number of pupils listed this year is 172. 

In June, 1904, at the request of the board of trustees, 
the Sisters of St. John Baptist, of New York, took charge 
of the school. Their work has been crowned with success. 
The aim of the school is to provide the best modern facili¬ 
ties for an all-round education. As an instance of the thor¬ 
oughness of the curriculum, a pupil of St. Helen’s Hall 
recently took the prize for an essay in a competition open 
to the whole state of Oregon. 

There are three departments, the lower school, the upper 
school and the kindergarten department. The certificate of 
St. Helen’s Hall is accepted in lieu of entrance examinations 
at the state universities of Oregon, Washington and Cali¬ 
fornia, and the work is accepted by eastern colleges accord¬ 
ing to the new regulations for entrance. 


Those not intending to enter college can take a full course 
in domestic science. High grade professors and teachers 
provide lessons in art and music. Visitors to the Shrine con¬ 
vention are cordially invited by the Sisters to pay a visit, and 
inspect the buildings. 


Columbia University 

ITUATED on a high bluff skirting the Willamette river, 
girls, is now in its fifty-first year. It is located in a 
rounded by gorgeous natural scenery, Columbia University is 
in a location that could not be more ideal for such an institu¬ 
tion. 

Columbia University is a Catholic boarding school and day 
school for young men and boys. The school offers students 
complete college and high school training. Reverend Eugene 
P. Burke, C. S. C., is president of the school, and under his 
able direction is a staff of capable instructors in the various 
departments. 

Too much cannot be said about the character upbuilding 
features of the school. The students have an advantage over 
Eastern schools in the equable climate, giving them the benefit 
of life in the great out-doors. The extensive grounds forms 
pleasing campuses for recreation and athletic sports, for which 
Columbia students are noted. The Columbia Coliseum, is a 
large building and is fully equipped. This indoor track is 
annually the scene of inter-scholastic track and field meets. 
Christie Hall, a students’ residence, contains a chapel, gymna¬ 
sium and billiard room. 

The rooms in Christie Hall are comfortably furnished 
and the cuisine is excellent. So far has the university gone 
to provide for the boarders that a poultry farm and also a 
dairy are operated in connection with the school, in order to 
insure the freshest eggs, milk and butter for the table. 

The Sisters of the Presentation, an exiled French commun¬ 
ity, have charge of the kitchen and laundry. Their convent 
is on the college grounds. 

Columbia College was founded by the Most Reverend Alex¬ 
ander Christie in 1901. Students from all over the United 
States are now in attendance, a large percentage being non- 
Catholics. 


Hemphill’s Trade Schools 

HPHE Portland branch of 
Hemphill’s Trade 
Schools is just as extensive 
in its scope and thorough in 
its various departments as 
other schools in the great 
Hemphill chain. It is lo¬ 
cated at 703-4-5 Hawthorne 
Avenue, and is under the 
personal supervision of 
Stanley R. Hemphill, presi¬ 
dent of the corporation, 
which is operated by Robert 
E. Hemphill and his seven 
sons. 

Not only do the students 
at the Hemphill Trade Schools get the benefit of a thorough 
knowledge of the theory of the gasoline motor, but they learn 
by actual experience in the large shops maintained by the 
school, every phase of the practical work. Instructors with 
specialized knowledge of each division of the work are direct¬ 
ing all the classes. 

Hemphill’s Trade Schools have been established for fifteen 
years, and thousands of expert gas engine mechanics have been 
developed through theii efficient courses. 

Constant additions and improvements have been made in the 
schools, and their growth has been phenomenal. Not only are 
the students given instructions and training in the automobile 
line, but the course of studies is just as complete in tractors, 
marine engines and aeroplane engines. 

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Education Pays in War and in Peace 

HE war took the measure of every combatant in respect to 
education. The quantity and quality of its education deter¬ 
mined the contribution of every nation to victory. Nothing 
was clearer than that nations with the best type of public 
education had the greatest reserve power and exerted the 
most enduring force. 

Leadership, research, teaching and technical training all 
counted in the great decision. These are exactly the things 
that in Oregon are being fostered by your State University, 
State Normal School, and State Agricultural College. 

Leadership was a great factor in winning the war. The 
thousands of young men from the college and the university 
who went into various arms of the service carried this quality 
with them, and made it count for victory. 

Research played an important part in winning the war. 
Upon research new truths chiefly depend; and new truths 
make new progress. Both the university and the college are 
engaged in research in their respective fields, and both have con¬ 
tributed important discoveries to human knowledge. The 
Normal School, too, is doing creative work in education, blaz¬ 
ing new trails. 

Teaching is the wellspring of all education. No system of 
education can be stronger than the inspiration of its teachers. 
American teachers, from the laboratory expert to the rural 
school mistress, were back of the boys who finished the job at 
Metz. In Oregon the fountain head of teaching is in the 
University, which supplied the great body of high school 
teachers; in the Normal chool, which prepares the thousands 
of teachers for the elementary schools; and in the Agricultural 
College, which trains the growing numbers of vocational 
teachers. 

TECHNICAL TRAINING 

The medical experts, the chemists, the engineers, the psy¬ 
chologists, the foresters, the bacteriologists, and the account¬ 
ants and organizers—these were truly the sinews of the late 
war, and the special glory of America. Lrom Oregon, the 
University and the College contributed their full quota. 

In the war, in short, nothing paid so well as education. The 
state educational institutions were the greatest asset in the 
conflict. \ et education is all for peace; and these institutions 
pay their biggest dividends in times of peace. Will you give 
them the funds necessary to care for a doubled enrollment in 
these days of doubled costs? Then go to the polls May 21, 
and vote 310 X, Yes. 


Education Pays 

DUCATION pays for the individual and for the state. A 
person with no education has but one chance in 150,000 
to render distinguished service to the public. With common 
school education four chances; with high school education 
87 chances; with college education, 800 chances. 

Are you giving your child this chance? States that have 
invested most in education are the wealthiest. The Oregon 
Agricultural College, through a “liberal and practical educa¬ 
tion” prepares the young man and young woman for useful 
citizenship, and for successful careers in agriculture, home 
economics, commerce, mining, engineering, pharmacy, for¬ 
estry and vocational education, together with training in phy¬ 
sical education, music, etc. 

Lor information, write to the Registrar, Oregon Agricul¬ 
tural College, Corvallis, Oregon. 

The future of the institution will be decided on May 21, 
when the higher educational tax act is voted on by the people. 
If you believe in the work of the institution, vote 310 X, Yes. 


Ice Cream, a National Dish 

17 VERY country has at least one dish or food for which it is 

J world-famous. When we think of England, we connect 
her with roast beef and Yorkshire pudding; Scotland is synon¬ 
ymous with oat meal; Italy means macaroni or olive oil; Mex¬ 
ico has chili con carne—a host of others instantly come to 
mind and we proceed to wonder what dish is really the uni¬ 
versal favorite here at home. The states each have some 
special cookery in which they excel and for which each has 
won a deserved reputation. We remember New England and 
its fish, or Vermont griddle cakes and maple syrup; down in 
Boston the whole world has eaten her peerless beans; from 
Maryland come the fat oysters and terrapin, beloved of the 
epicure. The South is famous for its fried chicken and 
waffles and the wide West for sundry dishes fit for a king. 
But none of these quite have the national appeal, the all-round 
use which would entitled them to be known as our national 
hobby in the eating line. They are all typical American dishes 
all have country-wide usage but not to the extent that another 
food enjoys which has never been much advertised, never has 
seen undue publicity, but instead quietly for these many years 
has been working its way into the hearts and stomachs of all 
America and today, if a vote were taken, the dish most beloved 
by our people as a whole would be ice cream. 

Ice cream! For years that magic word has spelled delight 
and anticipation to millions of youngsters and where only yes¬ 
terday it was the treat par excellence for “company,” parties, 
or Sundays, today Young America can go to the nearest drug 
Store or ice cream emporium and at any hour to eat his fill. 
Yesterday ice cream signified the “dress-up” dessert, the most 
choice refreshment we could offer our guests. Today, in city 
or town, the average consumer turns to her telephone five or 
six days out of a week and orders it as her daily dessert, or for 
a friendly accompaniment to the evening or afternoon call 
from the neighbor next door. From being employed only on 
state occasions, ice cream now is probably one of the standbys 
of the American ordinarily well-to-do family, and the dairy¬ 
man can come to attention and salute this greatest daughter 
of milk, for it is at present the silver lining to the dairy 
world cloud which hangs over our products today. 

It Always Sells 

When the price gets beyond a certain point, the consumer 
refuses to buy two quarts of milk whether needed or not. She 
turns upon butter a very cold shoulder when the price of the 
golden spread apparently ascends to the skies. She has not 
learned to use or like cheese in anywhere near the proportions 
it deserves but—and this “but” is worthy of careful considera¬ 
tion—she appears to think that ice cream, either by quart for 
home serving or by the dish over the counter, is well worth the 
money asked for it; and ice cream rather inconsistently re¬ 
mains in her good graces. The ice cream “fan’ fails to real¬ 
ize why his favorite does not turn on him as candy or spirits 
do and demand a reckoning with his stomach. He simply 
knows that it appears to strangely agree with him and no ill 
results follow. When this understanding is in the possession 
of everyone who now looks at the sweet as only fit to top off 
a meal with or an occasional “refreshment,” then we shall see 
milk’s greatest by-product in more demand than ever and the 
dairyman of this country may be put to it to supply the leaping 
demand. 

Everyone, rich and poor, sick and well, children and grown¬ 
ups, all love ice cream and ice cream loves them. Everyone 
has a good word for it, from the child to the adult, from the 
doctor to the scientist. It is healthful. It promotes growth. 
It agrees with the weakest stomach. In short, it is good, clean 
to the last spoonful and America is making no mistake in 
“going to it” to a man! 





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Portland—A Great Financial Center 

By Sydney B. Vincent 


ORTLAND, OREGON, occupies a unique posi¬ 
tion in the banking and financial importance of 
Pacific Coast cities. Rated fourth city in popu¬ 
lation, Portland ranks second only to San Fran¬ 
cisco in matters financial and holds a premier 
position among the cities of the Pacific North¬ 
west. In every banking feature Portland is far ahead 
of the next competing city in this wonderfully rich region. 

A comparison, from banking standpoint, between Portland 
and San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Tacoma. Spokane, 
Oakland, Sacramento and Stockton, show, that the four cities 
first named overshadow their smaller neighbors, and a study 
of the relative positions of the four leaders supports the decla¬ 
ration made in the first paragraph of this article. 

It is not my purpose to make detailed comparisons, nor do I 
propose to disparage in the slightest degree the banking facili¬ 
ties of competitive cities, but I expect ro show conclusively, 



NORTHWESTERN NATIONAL BANK 


in as brief a fashion as I may, that Portland’s position as 
the financial center of the Pacific Northwest may not success¬ 
fully be disputed. 

For years efforts have been made to inculcate in the minds 
of those unfamiliar with the situation, that Portland is the 
second city, financially, in the Pacific Northwest. This has 
been persistently attempted, and not altogether without suc¬ 
cess. Clever advertising, neat juggling of figures and other 
methods have made their impression, but official figures cov¬ 
ering the chief Pacific Coast cities made toward the close of 
1919, confirm the claim of Portland bankers and business men 
that the great port on the Columbia river is safely established 
in the first position as the financial power of the Pacific 
Northwest. 

The November, 1919, statement of the federal comptroller 
of currency shows that the national banks of an Francisco 
carried 85,625 accounts; Portland, 83,951; Seattle, 82,103; 
Los Angeles, 72,698. It thus will be seen that San Francisco, 
generally accredited with having a population twice as great 
as Portland’s, had at that time but 1,674 more national bank 
depositors than Portland, and that Portland national banks 
had 1,848 more depositors than the banks of Seattle, and was 
1 1,253 depositors ahead of Los Angeles. The latter city 
claims to have a larger population than San Francisco. 

Let us take another angle of the situation, as affecting the 
two banking centers of the Pacific Northwest, Portland and 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK 


Seattle, its nearest rival. On November 17 the four national 
banks of Portland had deposits aggregating $128,969,582.72, 
as against Seattle deposits amounting to $92,479,038.58, giv¬ 
ing Portland almost a forty per cent lead, or a total gain of 
$36,490,544.14, and this amount does not include several 
millions of dollars in the savings and trust departments of 
Portland’s national banks. 

Let us try another angle in comparisons. Here are the 
resources of the national banks of Portland and Seattle for 
the same date: Portland, $150,813,792.32, as against the total 
for the metropolis of Puget Sound of $107,571,615.53. It 
will be noted in this return that the percentage of increase in 
the matter of resources is practically the same as it was in 


























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deposits, or $43,242,176.99, proving the consistency of Port¬ 
land’s financial superiority over her nearest competitor. 

Portland’s position is one of great moment in these days of 
increasing trade and close scrutiny of credit. Always a con¬ 
servative city, she has been builded upon a foundation of con¬ 
servatism and confidence which will stand her in good hand in 
the future growth of the city, just now entering upon a grand 
new stage of development industrially and in her trade with 
the ports of the world. 

The banking situation in Portland also reflects the growth 
of territory tributary to the port., and the confidence of the 
people of Portland in her institutions. 

The accompanying table shows Portland’s annual bank 
clearings for the period beginning with the year 1900. It 
tells a remarkable story of persistent development, one 
equalled by few American cities, and sounding a note of in¬ 
creasing strength which augurs well for the future. 

PORTLAND’S ANNUAL RANK CLEARINGS 


1900 .....$ 106,918,027.48 

1904 .. 189,051,469.92 

1905 . 228,402,712.69 

1906 .. 281,170,796.26 

1907 .. 350,888,630.97 

1908 . 310,656,512.69 

1909 .. 391,028,890.61 

1910 .. 517,171,869.97 

1911 . 557,464,848.17 

1912 . 597,087.856.12 

1913 . 627,818,010.31 

1914 . 578,884,018.99 

1915 . 554,446,756.22 

1916 . 649,995,241.35 

1917 . 868,331,422.07 

1918 . 1,349,980.892.07 

1919 . 1,652,950,830.27 



FIRST NATIONAL BANK 


In the year of 1918 the total of clearances of the Portland 
banks was $1,349,980,892.07. For 1919, the figures were $1,- 
652,950,830.27, but they do not fully tell all the story. Only 
a comparison of the two years, by months, adequately can 
present the consistency of Portland’s development. Here is 
the story by months: 



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CLEARINGS BY MONTHS FOR 1918 AND 1919 



1918 

1919 

January .. 

.$ 80,417,173 

$ 118,666 941 

February . 

. 72,567,265 

99.352,401 

March .. 

. 88,061,453 

124,129,769 

April . . 

. 103,752,854 

129,556,148 

May . 

. 96,353,218 

132,926,684 

June . 

_ 100,928,446 

125,864,307 

July . 

_ 106,513,572 

128,151,278 

August . 

_ 109,699,461 

138,176,705 

September . 

. 125,334,598 

171.405,240 

October . 

. 165,926,798 

181.477,797 

November . 

. 132,049,603 

151,701,278 

December . 

_ 140,970,428 

151.642,264 

Total . 

.$1,349,980,892 ' 

$1,501,249,551 


The past few years have developed great changes in the 
banking situation in Portland. Capitalizations have increased 
greatly, and expansion has been the order of the day. The four 
great national banks have been obliged again and again to 
increase their facilities, and several of the smaller banks have 
moved into larger quarters. Several new banks have been 
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both in the number of banks and in their development of their 
respective businesses, lias grown tremendously. 

With the development of shipping and foreign trade the 
exchange departments of the larger banks have expanded 
greatly. Each of the national banks are delving deeper and 
deeper into the possibilities of foreign trade. Each bank has 
its corps of foreign trade experts and preparations for future 
development in this line are being made as rapidly as circum¬ 
stances warrant. Foreign transactions of great magnitude are 
being handled; the various institutions have participated heav¬ 
ily in the organization of syndicates to establish foreign agen¬ 
cies and to develop the commercial relations between the Port 
of Portland with Pacific foreign and European countries. 
That there will be continued growth in this direction is cer¬ 
tain. New shipping lines are being established, and many new 
firms are entering the export and import trade. 

Portland has another great financial distinction, being the 
foremost center for bond and investment securities sales on 
the Pacific Coast. 

Prior to the war there was an annual distribution of invest¬ 
ment securities of the better class from this city aggregating 
probably $10,000,000 each year. Then, with the education of 
the public upon the distinctive advantages of this sort of in¬ 
vestment that resulted from the offerings of government bonds 
issued to finance the war, thousands of persons who had not 
before recognized the liquid character of bonds became buyers. 

It is estimated that sales of bonds through Portland houses 
during 1919 exceeded $120,000,000 and that the volume of 
business will steadily increase in proportion with the general 
progress of business and financial operations of the tributary 
country. 

Portland banks have established bond departments in order 
to better take care of the business of their customers, thereby 
being in a position to give more comment on securities offered 
on the market. 

There are a score of exclusive bond houses, and dealers in 
investment securities, including firms with a capital of $1,000,- 
000. The high standing and sterling character of the strong 
houses in the business of buying and selling municipal and 
corporation bonds and investment securities and the important 
part their transactions play in the activities of the financial 
district is the best assurance that Portland will continue in the 
investment fields, as it has long been in banking, the foremost 
in the Pacific Northwest and set the pace for the entire Coast. 



INTERIOR OF ASHLEY & RUMELIN RANK 


Ashley and Rumelin 

RESENT home of Ashley and Rumelin, bankers, located 
at Second and Stark streets. Announcement has been made 
that the bank will occupy larger quarters in the Lumber Ex¬ 
change building soon. Bank was established in 1907, does a 
general banking business, has correspondents in principal 
cities, specializes in foreign exchange. Deposits last call were 
over $700,000. C. E. Rumelin is president; R. G. Ashley, 
vice-president; and M. A. M. Ashley, cashier. 


Peninsula National Bank 

N increase in capitalization of the Peninsula NationalBank 
which took effect on March 8, is a matter of interest to 
newswriters because the rather remarkable growth of this in¬ 
stitution reflects the progress of a big and thriving section of 
Portland. 

Some of the high lights in the growth of this bank are; 
Established in 1905, capital, $25,000; increased capital in 
1908 to $50,000; national charter granted in 1912; 1917 in¬ 
creased capital to $100,000, surplus, $10,000; 1920 increased 
capital to $200,000, surplus, $40,000. 

During its 15 years of existence the bank’s resources have 
increased to over $2,000,000. 

Several changes in officers and directorate were made the 
first of the vear. Officers now are: Fred C. Knapp, chairman 
of the board; Grant Smith, president; John N. Edlefsen, vice- 
president and manager; Frank P. Drinker, vice-president; 
Charles B. Russell, cashier; Stanton L. Dobie, assistant 
cashier; Edward R. Morris, assistant cashier; Leo J. Wright, 
assistant cashier. Directors are: Thomas Autzen, H. W. Bon¬ 
ham, K. C. Couch, F. P. Drinker, J. N. Edlefsen, A. R. Jobes, 
F. C. Knapp, H. E. Pennell, Grant Smith. 

The Peninsula National is located in what used to be St. 
Johns, now included in the corporate limits of Portland. The 
bank was established there when the first few of the big in¬ 
dustries now thriving in that vicinity were in their infancy. 

Officers of the Peninsula National Bank have always be¬ 
lieved that the lower peninsula was the logical location for the 
big basic industries. Recently progress seems to have justified 
their belief. The district directly served by this bank, which 
includes most of the residential section of the peninsula, the 
business part of St. Johns and the waterfront industries on 
the Willamette side, now has an industrial payroll of approxi¬ 
mately 10,000 persons. 


State Bank of Portland 

HE State Bank of Portland was incorporated and taken 
over by purchase, the business of the Scandinavian-Ameri- 
can Bank on June 25th, 1917, the Scandinavian-American 
Bank having been established in 1908. The bank was then 
situated on Park and Morrison streets, and in 1918 removed to 
its present location on Fifth and Stark streets, in the heart of 
Portland’s financial district. 

The bank has a capital of $200,000, surplus, $50,000, and 
undivided profits of $25,000, making a total of $275,000, and 
deposits of about $3,500,000 and total resources approximat¬ 
ing $4,000,000. Their business is .growing rapidly, having 
shown an increase of approximately $1,000,000 or 35 per cent 
last year, and they are now taking on additional banking space 
bv adding the quarters now occupied by the Lumbermen’s 
Trust Company on the north of their present room. 

The bank makes a special effort to serve the smaller business 
man and savings depositors; their officers are all active in the 
bank, and have had many years banking experience in Port¬ 
land and the Pacific Northwest. Their directors are all local 
people, prominent in the business and civic life of the com¬ 
munity and the bank has their active assistance and support. 


Citizens Bank 

HE Citizen’s Bank is located on the east side, occupying 
the corner ground floor room in the handsome building 
at the corner of Grand avenue, at East Sixth street. The bank 
was established in 1890. A general banking business, com¬ 
mercial and savings, is conducted by the institution. N. U. 
Carpenter is president; Joseph Paquet is vice-president; E. A. 
Clark, cashier; A. W. Livingston, assistant cashier. 
















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United States National Bank 

TT IS not many years 

since the old Ains¬ 
worth National Bank 
of Portland opened its 
doors for business on 
the corner at Third 
and Oak streets; that 
was in 1882. 

Portland, together 
with all of the North¬ 
west, has since passed 
through several periods 
of financial stress, 
which materially 
changed our local map 
as to banks and bank¬ 
ers ; but J. C. Ains¬ 
worth, R. W. Schmeer, 

A. M. Wright, W. A. 

Holt and Paul S. Dick, 
each of whom have been actively engaged in banking on the 
Pacific Coast for over twenty years, are names that have stood 
the test of time and won for the United States National Bank 
a reputation in the financial world that is second to none on 
this Coast. 

The Ainsworth National started with a capital of $100,000, 
and when J. C. Ainsworth took its presidency in 1894, it 
boasted total resources of less than $700,000. As a first im¬ 
portant step toward measuring up to requirements of this grow¬ 
ing community, the Ainsworths joined hands with I W. Hell- 
man of San Francisco in acquiring control of the United States- 
National Bank. This was in 1902, when the United States 
National claimed $250,000 capital and total assets of less than 
one and one-half millions. The merged institution in its state¬ 
ment of November 25, 1902, showed a capital ot $300,000, 
deposits less than $2,000,000. As a second important step, 
the Portland branch of Wells Fargo and Company’s bank was 
purchased in 1905 and amalgamated with the United States 
National. Its statement of August 25, 1905, shows a capital 
stock of $500,000 and deposits of $4,898,000. In 1910 the 
the capital stock was increased to $1,000,000. Statement of 
January 31, 1910, shows deposits of $9,216,000. In the mean¬ 
time, FI. B. Ainsworth, brother of President J. C. Ainsworth, 
was added to the directorate and is an active vice president. 
Mr. Ainsworth has had much experience in banking and other 
business pursuits on the Pacific Coast. 

•On September 15, 1917, the Lumbermens National Bank 
was amalgamated with the United States National Bank, which 
added resources of more than $8,000,000. 

The entire clerical staff of the Lumbermens remained, to¬ 
gether with all officers, namely, E. C. Crawford, A. I,. Tucker, 
Graham Dukehart, C. M. Dyrlund and E. C. Sammons—all 
men of much banking experience and ability. 

The United States National Bank now has resources of 
over $35,000,000, with capital and surplus of $2,500,000, 
and now occupies its new banking home at Sixth and Stark 
streets. 

The building covers a full quarter block. It was designed 
by A. E. Doyle of this city, and is considered one of the 
finest specimens of Roman-Corinthian architecture in the 
United States. Its exterior is faced with a light pinkish grey 
terra cotta on a pink granite base. Six Corinthian columns, 
forty-eight feet high, supplemented by a richly ornamented 
frieze, cornice and balcony, present a front of exceptional 


dignity and beauty; and it may be of interest to note in passing 
that arrangements have been made which flood-light the build¬ 
ing at night, so the proverbial dark corner presented by most 
banks does not apply here. 

The bank lobby is rectangular in shape, measuring 42 feet 
by 56 feet and 30 feet in height, a mezzanine floor on three 
sides, adding liberal additional space for the working force. All 
banking fixtures are of marble, bronce and plate glass; w T alls 
and ceilings are decorated in colors to harmonize with the 
warm yellow of the floors and banking screens. The vaults, 
directors’ room, recreation rooms, locker rooms and lavatories 
are in a well lighted, thoroughly ventilated and waterproof 
basement; and three upper floors, in marble, tile and mahog¬ 
any finish, have for rent some 23,000 square feet of very de¬ 
sirable office space. 

As a whole the improvement is a credit to the whole city and 
typical of the progressive spirit that has built up the United 
States National Bank. 



Clark, Kendall and Co. 

/^LARK, KENDALL & CO., was incorporated in July, 
1919. It is a re-organization of the partnership composed 
of Walter Kendall, Willis K. Clark, and Ralph H. Schneeloeh. 
Mr. Clark is now manager of the Ladd & Tilton Bank bond 
department, and Mr. Schneeloeh has his own company. Mr. 
Kendall is president and executive manager of Clark, Kendall 
& Co., Inc. Associated with him on the directorate are R. M. 
Dooly, Jr., Claude D. Starr, Ben C. Dev, and Ralph W. Wil¬ 
bur, all of whom are prominent men in Portland business 
affairs. 

Due to the knowledge of securities possessed by the com¬ 
pany’s officers and its relationship with different prominent 
underwriters, it has experienced an unusual growth. Its office 
is located at Fifth and Stark streets. 

Clark, Kendall & Co., limits its offerings to government and 
municipal and standard industrial bonds, and occasionally 
brings out preferred stocks of companies the earning of which 
have* been such as render their securities good investments. 

Clark, Kendall & Co., offers its services as an investment 
consultant in all financial lines, and has installed an income 
tax department, which is at the disposal of any individual or 
firm requiring assistance or information along that line. 

In addition to the above, a partial payment department has 
been added, being operated mainly for persons who tvish to 
benefit from their savings, and who are not in a position to 
purchase large blocks of bonds for cash. 













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LADD & TILTON BANK 


TT was in 1853 that William S. Ladd erected at 105 Front 
street, the first brick building in Portland, and in company 
with Charles E. Tilton started a mercantile business there. 

In 1857 a second story was added, and here, June 1st, 1859, 
was organized what is now the Ladd & Tilton Bank—the first 
financial institution in the Pacific Northwest, which then com¬ 
prised Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Western Montana, and 
Alaska. 

It was just a little bank, with a capital of $50,000, but it 
made possible a big advance in the business life of the small 
settlement, and was established with high aspirations on the 
part of the young partners in the new enterprise. 

Mr. Ladd was in active charge, since Mr. Tilton resided in 
San Francisco, and an extract from one of Mr. Tilton’s let¬ 
ters shows the lofty ideals on which the new bank was 
founded. “Let us take a safe and straight course in all our 
business dealings.” “We must be prompt in meeting every 



obligation, and jealous of our credit at home and abroad.” 

One can appreciate somewhat the difficulties under which 
these pioneer bankers labored. It took six to nine days for 
mail to go from Portland to San Francisco. There were two 
mail routes to the East—one by steamer via the Isthmus of 
Panama; the other overland to the Missouri river, thence by 
rail. In either case it took 40 to 45 days for letters to go 
from Portland to New York. 

At that time not much collateral security could be offered 


by borrowers, and the banker must decide matters largely on 
the basis of personal character, not always an easy matter. 
The rate of interest paid on deposits varied from 10 to 20 per 
cent per annum. 

But with these varied problems to solve, and obstacles to 
surmount, the young bank prospered, and by December 31st, 
1861, the deposits amounted to $113,344.36. So encouraging 
was the prospect that two years after organization, Mr. Steph¬ 
en Mead was taken into partnership, and the capital stock in¬ 
creased to $150,000. 

The page and a half of ads in the Morning Oregonian show 
that by 1864 three other banks had been organized—the First 
National of Portland, the Bank of British Columbia, and the 
East Portland Savings and Loan Bank. Competition only 
spurred on “Ladd & Tilton, Bankers,” and in 1864 they fitted 
up new offices on the ground floor of a building at Stark and 
Front streets, remaining there until 1868. 

That year they moved into their own building at First and 
Stark; all the materials in it were strictly home products, and 
the building itself followed the best architecture of the time. 
The Portland Library Association occupied free space on the 
upper floor, an example of the civic spirit always shown by 
the Ladd & Tilton Bank. 


West Coast Life Insurance Co. 

^SSETS amounting to over four and one-half million dol- 
ars with forty million dollars worth of insurance—such 
is the record of the West Coast Life Insurance Company, 
which was established in March, 1906. 

The head office of the company is located at San Francisco. 
J. W. Stewart, superintendent of agents, has charge of the 
northwestern division, covering Oregon, Washington, Idaho 
and Montana. Headquarters are at 705-6-7 Gasco building, 
and sub-offices are located in Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane. 

The executives are John A. Koster, president; T. C. Tilden, 
vice-president; Victor Etienne, Jr., vice-president; Francis V. 
Keesling, vice-president and counsel; Chailes W. Helser, vice- 
president; Gordon Thomson, secretary and actuary; George 
D. Clark, treasurer, and W. R. Cluness, Jr., medical director. 

The spirit of the west is the spirit of West Coast Service. 
It is virile and aggressive. It includes strength and a healthy 
enthusiasm. Above all other things, service is the dominant 
factor. Operating in all of the western states, as well as in 
the Hawaiian and Phillipine Islands, it is one of the largest 
insurance companies west of the Mississippi river. 


Hobbies and Fancies of Prominent Men 

William Cornfoot’s hobby is pleasant and harmless—to 
himself. He calls in the Portland pipers’ band, lock? his office 
and listens to the two-and-twenty bag-pipes all playing differ¬ 
ent tunes. 


After a hard season of golf Guy M. Standifer freshens up 
by going east and selling contracts for building half a dozen 
steel tankers. 


A. L. Mills spends all of his spare time playing golf, 
hunting, fishing and walking, so that he has no time for 
hobbies. 


J. R. Bowles’ hobbies include shipbuilding and wing-shoot¬ 
ing, and his friends maintain that he is unexcelled in either 
line. And when lie’s feeling particularly devilish he just 
loves to spit in the ocean. 


















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Pacific States Fire Insurance Co. 

HE opening of the new home of the Pacific States Fire 
Insurance Company, at the northeast corner of Eleventh 
and Alder streets, indicates in a measure the success that the 
company has attained. The building was purchased by the 
company recently and completely rebuilt, and is one of the 
best equipped offices in the entire west. 

The Pacific States Fire Insurance Company is an Oregon 
corporation, and the officers and directors are prominent Ore¬ 
gon men. Starting in 1910 with assets of $288,169, and 



$25,920 total premiums for the entire first year, the assets on 
January 1, 1920, were $982,878.10, with premiums amounting 
to $479,809.73 for the past year. It is the only fire insurance 
company in the Northwest and its money is invested entirely 
locally. 

A. H. Averill is president of the company; F. I. Fuller, 
vice-president; L. G. Clarke, treasurer, and T. H. Williams, 
secretary and manager. There are also seven other directors 
in various parts of the state. 


John Burgard & Co. 

J OHN H. BURGARD and Company are in the general in¬ 
surance business, the line includes fire, marine, plate glass, 
holdup, liability, accident, health, explosion, riot and strike 
insurance. The company represents some of the most, sub¬ 
stantial companies in the country, several of which are leaders 
in the special lines. The company gives expert service, no 
matter what branch of insurance the client may require. The 
offices of the company are located at 273 Oak street. 


Oregon Transfer Company 

r I ''HE Oregon Transfer Company is the pioneer establish- 
ment of its kind in the city, having commenced operations 
in 1848. A fleet of forty trucks and transfer wagons is main¬ 
tained, and tlie payroll is a large one. The offices and ware¬ 
houses are located at 474 Glisan street, and l69'/2 North Sixth 
streets. The plant is valued at nearly half a million dollars. 
J. M. Parke is secretary and manager. 


In cereal manufacture, Oregon equals any state west of 
the Rocy Mountains and surpasses most of them. 


The Bank of California N. A. 

T HE Bank of 
California, Na¬ 
tional Association, 
is one of the oldest 
financial institutions 
on the Pacific Coast, 
founded as a state 
bank in 1864 and 
obtained its national 
charter on February 
5, 1910. Since its 
organization, it has 
continuously held a 
prominent position 
in financial affairs 
of the West. The 
head office of the 
bank is in San Francisco. 

In the year 1905, it acquired the business of the Fondon & 
San Francisco Bank, Ltd., with branches at San Francisco, 
Portland, Tacoma and Seattle; the business of the San Fran¬ 
cisco branch of that institution being amalgamaLed with the 
Bank of California. The other branches continued to be main¬ 
tained as branches of the Bank of California. 

On February 29, 1920, the date of the comptroller’s last 
call, the published statement of the bank showed assets of 
$ 121 , 000 , 000 . 

The bank transacts a general commercial banking business 
and has recently availed itself of the privilege conveyed by 
the Federal Reserve Act to establish a trust department, 
authorized to act as trustee, executor, administrator, registrar 
of stocks and bonds, guardian of estates, assignee, receiver, or 
any other fiduciary capacity permitted to banks or trust 
companies. 


Hibernia Commercial and Savings Bank 

HE Hibernia 
Commercial and 
Savings Bank is 
considered the most 
centrally located fi¬ 
nancial institution 
in the city. 

The Hibernia 
Bank was estab¬ 
lished in 1892. It was first located at the southeast corner of 
Third and Stark streets. Later the bank was moved to Wash¬ 
ington street, between Second and Third, and then to Second 
and Washington. With the business center, shifting west, the 
bank secured its present magnificent home located at the north¬ 
east corner of Fourth and Washington streets. 

The officers and directors of the institution are as follows: 
John F. Daly, president; Lansing Stout, vice president; C. B. 
Sewall, vice president and cashier; Joseph E. Wiley, vice 
president; Fred I. Webber, assistant cashier; Chas. V. Gallo¬ 
way, assistant cashier; Arthur C. Spencer, Noble Wiley Jones, 
Jas. T. Barron and D. C. O’Reilly, directors. 

Constant improvements and additions in the facilities of the 
Hibernia Commercial and Savings Bank reflect the growth of 
the institution. A.dditional space is again made necessary by 
its continued growth and plans have already been made* for 
an enlargement of the banking rooms. 






























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OREGON’S 

LUMBER 

INDUSTRY 



One-fifth of the 
standing timber 
of the United 
States is in Oregon 













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PORTLAND 

The Greatest Lumber Manufacturing City in the World 
By Sydney B. Vincent 



HE LUMBER business of the Pac'fic North¬ 
west represents the largest single industry in 
this vast region, so marvelously rich in natural 
resources. It would seem incredible to the casual 
observer to learn that in Oregon and Washing¬ 
ton, the two greatest timber states in the Union, 
stands two-fifths of all the merchantable timber in the United 
States, but such is the fact. According to the best available 
federal statistics there stands in Oregon, Washington and 
Idaho 1,000,000,000 feet B. M., of merchantable timber, and 
of this vast amount the figures for Oregon show 470,000,000,- 
000 feet board measure. 



Few persons realize that the 
knell of the timber industry in 
the great south, that portion of 
the United States south of the 
Mason and Dixon line, has been 
sounded. In all that vast area 
there stands today but 380,000,- 
000,000 feet of yellow pine, and 
it is being cut so rapidly that, 
according to an announcement 
by the 1667 mills now in opera- 
oregon Douglas fir tion in the south, will be out of 
business in five years, and in ten 
years three hundred additional mills will be without timber to 
cut, and practically one-half of the standing timber of the 
south will have been converted into lumber. 

On the other hand, the present cut in the Pacific Northwest 
is only about 7,000,000,000 board feet a year, with indica¬ 
tions that within five years this figure will be about doubled, 
of which something over one-half will be cut in Portland’s 
trade territory, which will mean that approximately 150,000 
people will be employed in the timber and lumber industries 
alone. Undoubtedly Portland always will wear the crown as 


In this connection “casual ob¬ 
server” will be more greatly sur¬ 
prised to learn that the city of 
Portland, -Oregon, the metro¬ 
polis of the vast Columbia river 
basin, the financial center of the 
Pacific Northwest, the second 
largest jobbing center on the Pa¬ 
cific Coast, the second largest 
wheat and wool shipping city in 
the United States, also is the 
largest lumber manufacturing 
city in the world, a distinction 
which undoubtedly always will 
be hers. In addition to the vast 
timber resources of Oregon tri¬ 
butary to Portland, practically 
all that vast area of timbered 
lands in Washington in the 
watershed of the Columbia, ag¬ 
gregating 1,000,000,000 feet, 
also comes to the Portland 
market. 


the king of lumber manufacturing cities. 

The rapidly decreasing supply of timber in the southern 
states can mean but one thing—that the great timber market 
of the future will be in the Pacific Northwest, for in a very 
few years the south will not have a sufficient supply to export 
and at the same time continue to take care of the lumber de¬ 
mands of that great section of the United States. 

A further analysis of the timber and lumber situation in 
the Pacific Northwest produces additional figures of startling 
character. Proceeding on the hypothesis that only six or 
seven billion feet a year continue to be cut, there is a supply 
of raw material that would last approximately one hundred 
years, but figuring that Portland 
and the Columbia river basin 
territory will alone cut that 
amount each year, it would re¬ 
quire 216,500 freight cars alone 
to move it, or if shipped by water 
some 15,000,000 dead weight 
tons of shipping would be re¬ 
quired, and sixty or seventy 
years of time would elapse. 

Hundreds of ships of large ca¬ 
pacity would be engaged in 
transporting the lumber. The 
great docks of Portland con¬ 
stantly would be lined with 
steamers either unloading com¬ 
modities from overseas or load¬ 
ing lumber to take to Europe, 

Asia, South America and Africa. 

Truly a great ocean commerce 
must concentrate at this wonder¬ 
ful port which lies at the conflu¬ 
ence of the great Columbia and 
Willamette rivers. 

But let us for a moment con¬ 
sider our domestic use of Ore¬ 
gon lumber. If the annual cut 
never exceeds six billion feet, 
and assuming that one-half of 
this production will be sold with¬ 
in the borders of the United 
States it would require approxi¬ 
mately 108,000 carloads a year 
to move it. Reducing the figures 
again it would require six trains 
of fifty cars each every dav in 
the year to handle the enormous output of the sawmills of 
Portland and vicinity. 

A moment s consideration of the tremendous possibilities of 
the lumber development at Portland and the resulting increase 
in commerce which naturally must come to a manufacturing 
city of such capacity and to a port of such importance in the 
shipping of the world, it readily will be realized that even if 
Portland were solely dependent upon her lumber, the citv 
would become one of the great American cities, but Portland 
and Oregon have so many other things to insure commercial 



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THE FORESTRY BUILDING, PORTLAND, OREGON 
A MONUMENT TO THE TIMBER INDUSTRY 

and maritime development that her future is doubly promising. 

Trains needed to transport Oregon lumber to markets in 
the United States, are not going to be sent to Portland empty. 
Those trains are going to bring commodities for Pacific Coast 
and foreign distribution, or they will bring raw products to 
Portland to be manufactured and shipped overseas, thus insur¬ 
ing a great future for Portland, not only as a manufacturing 
city in other than lumber commodities, but as a city of grea,t 
importing houses. Here will be concentrated vast quantities 
of Oriental raw and manufactured products, beside being a 
receiving point for goods from all Pacific Ocean ports, and 
Europe, and Africa, and South America. 

The continued development of the vast timber resources 
tributary to the Columbia river and to Portland will stimulate 
the development of associated industries, such as furniture 
making pulp, and woodworking plants, the manufacture of 
machinery, and beside will bring into production for cattle 
raising, dairying and other agricultural purposes, hundreds 
of thousands of acres of logged off lands. 

There is every indication that the lumber industry of Port¬ 
land will enjoy great prosperity for many years. The markets 
of the world were depleted of their stocks during the war 
and the tremendous impetus building of all kinds has at¬ 
tained in the world since the signing of the armistice 
assures a ready market for years to come. The shortage 
of labor and other possible adverse manufacturing condi¬ 
tions seem to be the only possible contingencies which can 
arise to prevent the lumber production in Portland terri¬ 
tory in the next few years attaining the proportions 
forecast at the beginning of this article. 

It has been said that the three years of war caused a 
lumber deficiency estimated at 45,000,000,000 feet, or 
one-half of the present total annual output of the United 
States. It must be obvious then that if we are to return 
to normal production that this deficiency must create a 
tremendous commerce at Portland as well as other lumber 
shipping ports. 

The shortage of dwellings in the United States, in 
Great Britain, France and other European countries will 
alone create a tremendous commerce at Portland as well 
as other lumber shipping ports. 

The shortage of dwellings in the United States, in 
Great Britain, France and other European countries will 


alone create a market for the industry. The British gov¬ 
ernment announced some time ago that it would build 
300,000 houses shortly after peace was signed, and other 
building of a private character in Great Britain will bring 
the total of new structures up to 500,000 within a few 
years. France, it is said, is in far worse condition than 
Great Britain, due, of course, to the tremendous material 
destructiveness of war’s operations. 

And so the lumber business of Portland will go mer¬ 
rily onward for many jmars to come. In fact, it is doubt¬ 
ful if production in the future ever will be less than it 

was this year. 

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Douglas Fir is the most important of Oregon grown 
timber. The French have a saying to the effect that the 
Douglas Fir of Oregon “is the King of Commercial 
Woods,” and it truly is. For practically every building 
and structural purpose in which wood is employed, the 
Douglas fir is supreme. This particular variety of lum¬ 
ber is, of course, the backbone of Portland’s great lum¬ 
ber industry. Douglas fir has been the great shipping 
lumber from all Pacific Northwest ports, and finds a 
ready market in the Orient, the Antipodes, South Amer¬ 
ica, Great Britain and Europe and elsewhere in the 
world. Recent years have witnessed a considerable ship¬ 
ment to Africa, especially South Africa, where because of its 
lightness and great strength it is used for mining timbers. 

The weight of Douglas fir, according to government records 
as reported in United States Forest Service Bulletin No. 108, 
is 28. 9 pounds per cubic foot off green material. At the same 
time its strength for structural and all other purposes is equal 
to, or greater than that of any other species of soft wood. 

“The most important of American woods,” is the descrip¬ 
tion given Douglas fir by the United States forest service. 
“Its rapid growth in the Pacific Coast forests, its compara¬ 
tively wide distribution, and the great variety of uses to which 
it is put, place it first among the woods produced on this con¬ 
tinent. As a structural timber it is not surpassed and prob¬ 
ably it is most widely used and known in this capacity.” 

Douglas fir trees are scattered over the hills and plains from 
the Pacific Coast east as far as the Rocky Mountains, but the 
Douglas fir of commerce is found exclusively in the compara¬ 
tively narrow strip of country west of the Cascade Mountains 
in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. 


SOME FINE FIR TIMBERS 







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A SMALL ARMY ON A LARGE STICK OF OREGON FIR IN A PORTLAND LUMBER MILL YARD 


This species comprises, it is estimated, more than twenty- 
five per cent of the standing timber in the entire United States, 
including both hard and soft wood. Climatic conditions are 
extremely favorable to the production of fir lumber at all 
seasons of the year. Operations can be carried on in the open 
during the winter. Shipbuilding never need fear a shortage of 
supply. Natural conditions lend themselves admirably to the 
practice of cutting the logs in the winter and using them in 
ship construction in the summer, although in the recent emer¬ 
gency, green timbers were used with entirely satisfactory 
results. 

In this connection the following report recently made by the 
United States forest service, is illuminating; 

“Douglas fir does not shrink much for this reason it is pos¬ 
sible to use partially dried material in emergencies without 
fear that the additional drying after the material has been 
shaped will open the seams or cause undesirable stresses in 
the members.” 

The Douglas fir timber resources of the Northwest are, in 
the most part, convenient to the tidewater mills. No time is 
lost, therefore, in getting the logs to the saws. 

The Douglas fir of Oregon has a distinct advantage over 
the other soft woods, in that it may be cut into timbers of im¬ 
mense proportions. Timber 100 feet long, and two feet square, 
while not produced commercially except on special orders, may 
be had. Several Portland mills are equipped to cut such 
timbers. 


The Douglas fir rapidly is becoming popular as a wood fo>- 
the interior finish of the fine residences, of Pullman cars, and 
similar purposes. When cut for these purposes it is an espe¬ 
cially beautiful wood, the grain giving a most attractive ap¬ 
pearance. Douglas fir ages well and becomes very hard. 

But Oregon has a number of other woods of commerce, 
including the great spruce, the wonderful red cedar, the hem¬ 
lock and larch and other woods beside being a producer of 
large quantities of ash, maple, myrtle and other hard woods. 
The Oregon cedar is a wonderful tree, and attains tremendous 
growth. Its greatest commercial use in the United States is 
for the manufacture of shingles, being superior to all other 
woods for this purpose. A considerable quantity of the lum¬ 
ber is shipped to the Orient, and to Europe for various other 
purposes. 

Oregon “Sitka" spruce is the chief pulp wood for the great 
paper mills on the Columbia and Willamette rivers. The great 
part it played in the “winning of the war” need not be gone 
into here. The world knows that it was the one wood essential 
to the completion of the greatest modern fighting machine, the 
airplane. Millions of feet of spruce lumber were shipped 
from the Northwest to Great Britain, France and Italy, to 
sav nothing of the enormous consumption by the United 
States government. Portland was headquarters for the gov¬ 
ernment’s spruce operations, being selected because of its 
central location, its splendid transportation facilities and its 
access to the markets of the w r orld. 



A GIANT TIMBER FOR A PORTLAND-BUII,T WOODEN STEAMER 
























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East Side Mill and Lumber Company 



r I "'HE East Side Mill and Lum- 
ber Company was established 
in 1902 and since that time it has 
grown to enormous proportions.’ 
John P. Miller, president of the 
Company, is a pioneer lumber man 
of the state. Elis interests include 
a box factory, and door plant, and 
a logging and timbering concern. 
Mr. Miller is inventor of the Mil¬ 
ler gasoline lumber carrier, which 
the company now manufactures. 
The East Side Mill, the Oregon 
Door Company and East Side 
Box Factory are located on a large 
tract of land on the river at the 
foot of Spokane street. 


Peninsula Lumber Company 



O NE bundled million feet of 
fir lumber is cut annually in 
the huge plant of the Peninsula 
Lumber Company, located in the 
St. Johns district in Portland. 

Five hundred men are employed in 
the plant, the annual payroll 
amounting to about $500,000. 

The plant was established fif¬ 
teen years ago, being owned by a 
Wisconsin corporation. At that 
time the plant was 600x600 feet 
in size. In 1916, F. C. Knapp, 
present head of the company, pur¬ 
chased the interests of outside 
owners and incorporated the com¬ 
pany under Oregon laws. Today 
the|plantis 1900x3300 feet in size. 

The output amounts to $3,000,000 
a year. The property consists of 
120 acres. 

The Peninsula Lumber Com¬ 
pany’s property is located on the river, and is provided with 
2000 lineal feet of dockage. Aside from the deep water con¬ 
nections, the company has railroad trackage and shipments are 
made by car and cargo to all parts of the world. 


F. C. Knapp, president; William Anderson, secretary and 
treasurer; Geotge Stock, office manager and assistant treas¬ 
urer; H. D. Vaughan, assistant secretary; W. B. McMillan, 
general superintendent. 


Saari-Tully Lumber Company 

r | "'HE business of the Saari-Tully 
Lumber Company has devel¬ 
oped into great proportions, a 
large export business having been 
built up, in addition to domestic 
shipments. 

The Saari-Tully Lumber Com¬ 
pany deals in fir, hemlock, cedar 
and spruce. Long fir timbers, rail¬ 
way and car materials, ties, mining and ship timbers, boat 
materials, aeroplane stock, factory lumber, box and crating 
lumber and general building lumber is carried. 

Portland offices are in the Northwestern Bank building. 
Branches are maintained in New York, Chicago, Cleveland and 
Minneapolis. 



Brix Lumber Co. 

r T''HE Brix Lumber Com- 
pan}' is one of the best 
known and most substantial 
concerns of this type in the 
Northwest. The company 
specializes in fir and spruce, 
and operates large mills. Al¬ 
bert Brix is president; A. 
E. Brix is vice-president, 
and L. A. Brix. whose pic¬ 
ture is shown, is secretary 
and manager. 











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'T'HE Nicolai Door Manufacturing Company was established in 1910. Last year 500,000 doors were manufactured. The 
output amounted to $2,000,000, employment being given to 175 men and women The plant occupies six acres. Harry T. 
Nicolai is president and manager. 


Doernbecher Manufacturing Co. 

T HERE are comparatively few people living in Portland 
who know that there is located in this city an industry 
which ranks as the third largest of its kind in the entire world. 
This is the Doernbecher Manufacturing Company, producers 
of a large and varied line of bed room furniture. 

To the founder, and still active head of this organization, 
F. S. Doernbecher, is due the credit for the high place occupied 
today by his firm. His wonderful success is largely due to his 
own knowledge of every phase of the furniture manufacturing 
business and the constant application of that knowledge 
through personal supervision. 

He started to amass experience as an employee of some of 
the largest Eastern factories, gained more when he went into 
business for himself, when his output was largely the product 
of his own hands, and he is still studying the game today, keep¬ 
ing abreast of the latest and best in his line. 

When Mf. Doernbecher first embarked in business for him¬ 
self in 1890, his capital was $1000, his crew numbered three 
men and the factory occupied 2680 feet of floor space. That 
was in Tacoma, Washington. In 1892 the plant was moved to 
Chehalis, Washington, and finally in 1900, due to induce¬ 
ments offered by the Portland Chamber of Commerce, Mr. 
Doernbecher came to Portland. 

The road traveled to success has been far from smooth and 
it was only Mr. Doernbeeher’s tenacity of purpose, hard work 
and business insight which finally pulled to the top this flour¬ 
ishing business. In the early days Eastern competition and a 
certain lack of appreciation of Western made goods kept prof¬ 
its low. Then, lack of capital forced Mr. Doernbecher to 
assume indebtedness, the size of which would have at the out¬ 
set. discouraged many men. 

Today the Doernbecher Manufacturing Company is recog¬ 
nized throughout the country as a highly successful organiza¬ 
tion with an output of the highest merit. 

Year by year substantial additions to the factory have been 
built and the most modern machinery is constantly being added. 

The demand is easily accounted for by a fair and square 
marketing policy, goods of high-class design and workman¬ 
ship and a “non-profiteering” and standard quality goods even 
in these times. 

Their line of furniture has been called for by Eastern deal¬ 
ers and by European, South American and Oriental traders, 
but the territory is limited to Western states because of the 
inability to manufacture a surplus over local demands. 

Besides the Portland factory, Mr. Doernbecher has estab¬ 
lished at Coales, Oregon, a modern mill, cutting lumber and 


veneer for the exclusive use of the company. 

In a complete plant at the Portland factory there are manu¬ 
factured all of the mirrors used on the Doernbecher line. These 
are instances of the many things that combine to make this 
company as nearly self-contained as it is possible for an indus- 
trj r of this type to be. 

The business last year exceeded one and a quarter million 
dollars, of which amount over a million is brought to Portland 
from outside the state. There are 350 men employed, and the 
monthly payroll aggregates $40,000. The floor space totals 
over eight acres, and the Doernbecher Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany has not stopped growing. 


Portland Lumber Company 

A LARGE export business has recently been developed by 
the Portland Lumber Company. Products from the big 
local plant are sent to all parts of the world. 

The Portland Lumber Company was established in 1901. 
Improvements and additions have been made continuously, the 
plant now occupying about sixteen acres of land. The plant 
is located on the river front, at the foot of Lincoln street. 
In addition to water shipping facilities, tracks of both the 
Southern Pacific Company and Oregon Electric are laid in 
the yard. 

The company specializes in the manufacture of Douglas fir. 
Two hundred thousand feet of lumber are cut daily in each 
eight hours. More than 250 men are employed in the plant. 

L. J. Wentworth is vice-president and general manager of 
the company. G. K. Wentworth, Jr., is secretary-treasurer. 
Both are prominent Portland men, and own enviable reputa¬ 
tions on account of war activities. Norris R. Wentworth is 
president of the company and John C. Ross, vice-president, 
are residents of Bay City, Michigan. 


Central Door and Lumber Co. 

HE business of the Central Door and Lumber Companv 
has grown to enormous proportions. The company was 
established in 1907, and though the factory has been doubled 
in capacity over and over again, the company is still unable to 
fill the orders. The concern manufactures sash and doors 
wall boards, mirrors and art glass. The factory is located at 
13th and Glisan streets. A. F. Biles is president; J C. Grip¬ 
per, vice-president, R. N. Parks, secretary-treasurer. 
















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Oregon’s Fishing Industry 



T HE fishing industry of the lower Columbia supports 
at present about 20 canneries, the principal plants 
being within the city of Astoria. During the 1918 
season the Columbia River canneries packed 600,000 cases 
of (salmon. The value of this pack was $7,500,000, 65 
per cent of which represents the revenue to labor within 
this district and directly associated in the industry 


T O further the salmon packing 
industry on the Columbia, the 
state of Oregon operates numerous 
fish hatcheries, which are main¬ 
tained by licenses assessed against 
the canneries and fishermen, where 
millions of salmon are propagated 
each year and released into the 
river. These fish go out to sea and 
grow to maturity, after which they 
return to the Columbia to spawn. 

The Chinook Salmon, for which 
the Columbia is famous, starts to 
come to the mouth of the river from 
the ocean as early as February or 
March, but, by state regulations, 
the season for catching them does 
not open until May 1, which allows 


large numbers to get up stream to 
their spawning grounds. Those 
which enter the river first go to the 
headwaters, many of them getting 
to spawning grounds in the Saw¬ 
tooth mountains in Idaho, more 
than 1,000 miles from Astoria. 
There is no other species of fish in 
the world equaling the Chinook 
Salmon in commercial value. It 
reaches an enormous size; fish have 
been taken weighing 80 pounds, 
and 50 to 60 pounders are not in¬ 
frequent catches. 

Hume and Hapgood, the fath¬ 
ers of the industry, erected the 
first commercial cannery on the 
Columbia river in the spring of 


1876. Although the appliances 
used for, canning were crude as 
compared with those used in the 
modern cannery today, it is appar¬ 
ent that their venture proved a 
success from the start. Since that 
time—43 years—the fishermen 
have continued to ply their nets 
season after season without inter¬ 
ruption. 

Statistics at hand show that there 
has been taken from the Columbia 
river alone, salmon product to 
the value of approximately $130,- 
000.000. 

While the principal value of 
Oregon salmon fisheries is centered 
in the Columbia river district, the 
salmon production of the numer¬ 
ous streams is also an important 
factor. The larger of these rivers 
supports one or more canneries, as 
well as furnishing annually mil¬ 
lions of pounds of fish product 
which are sent out to the fresh fish 
markets, a considerable percentage 
of which goes to the eastern mar¬ 
kets. 

The final figures showing the 
number of cases packed and the 
value thereof for the year of 1919 
are not yet available, but from the 
information we have at hand it is 
safe to estimate that the value of 
the output for the Columbia river 
and the entire state will be not less 
than $6,000,000. 

The catch of spring or Royal 
Chinook salmon on the Columbia 
was as large, if not larger, than 
that of 1918, and when we consider 
that some of the former great sal¬ 
mon streams of Alaska produced 
less than 20 per cent of the normal 
pack, and that the entire pack on 
the Pacific Coast was below 50 per 
cent of normal, connected with the 
disastrous conditions which have 
overtaken the fishing interests of 
Puget Sound and Fraser river, it 
can be seen that the Oregon fish¬ 
eries have made a very favorable 
showing for the season just closed. 






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Canning is Enormous Industry 



IVE a thought to the canning industry of Oregon! Think 
'J r of the miracles of food preservation being performed 
within one hour’s ride of your office, consider the wealth that 
industry is creating, estimate, if you can the increase in the 
state’s productivity and land values resulting from this busi¬ 
ness—and you are face to face with one of the interesting 
phases of Oregon’s development. 

Shot through with strands of business imagination and fore¬ 
sight, a little daring, some bad luck and plenty of perseverance, 
the canning industry lias today reached the stage where it 
stands up and compels recognition on its own merits and 
achievements. 

Portland is naturally the local point of this growth. Many 
of the financing and selling plans are laid here, many con¬ 
cerns have their headquarters in this city, and all have selling 
agencies in Portland. For a complete roster of the firms and 
plants, the Associated Industries of Oregon has brought them 
all together in its directory of the state’s Industry 

Advertising pages tell us of the merits of some of the newer 
and justly popular branches of the food preservation business, 
specifically the fruit juices, jams and jellies and dehydrated 
fruits and vegetables. But forging ahead steadily without 
blare of trumpets or a full realization of the size they have 
really attained, the canneries of Oregon are still the principal 
consumers of the products of orchard and berry vines. 

Forty canneries in Oregon, most of them in the Willamette 
Valley, produced 2,000,000 cases of canned fruits and vege¬ 
tables valued at $12,000,000. Sixteen firms owning most of 
the 40 plants, are members of the Northwest Canners’ Asso¬ 
ciation, of which J. O. Holt, manager of the Eugene Fruit 
Growers’ Association, is president, and D. J. Matthews, of 
the A. Rupert Co., Inc., is secretary. 

The products of 10,000 Western Oregon acres are used by 
berg; C. J. Pugh, Falls City, and Clarence Butt, Newberg. 


States. Roughly $3,000,000 is paid to the farmers for their 
products each year, while land values in communities served 
by canneries have increased from $50 and $150 an acre to 
$700 and $1000 an acre. 

These canneries without a doubt have done more to put the 
orchardist and small tract owner on his feet than any other 
marketing device. For example, a farmer near Eugene was 
unable, due to the size of crop, rain and lack of farm labor, 
to sell one-fourth of his peaches in open market. Five dollars 
a ton was all he hoped to realize from this surplus The can¬ 
nery took them, performed another “miracle,” then paid $45 a 
ton for 25 tons, thereby converting a loss into a gain. 

Various cooperative canneries owned bv producers have been 
successful, but it remained for the A. Rupert Co., Inc., of 
Portland, to unite several canneries into a strong producing 
organization. Backed by a large selling force, the product of 
the six Oregon plants has been distributed successfully. Addi¬ 
tions amounting to $150,000 are being made to the plants at 
Newberg, Febanon, and an entirely new plant at McMinn¬ 
ville is being erected, giving this concern modern canneries at 
the above mentioned places, and at Gresham, Falls City and 
Springbrook in Oregon, and North Puyallup, Washington. 

The A. Rupert Co., Inc., a $1,000,000 Oregon corporation, 
maintains branch offices at Seattle and San Francisco, besides 
direct export connections. Their pack this coming year is esti¬ 
mated to be 750,000 cases, valued at $2,000,000.' Since the 
death of Arthur Rupert, founder of the business, Edgar 
Sensenich has been chairman of the board of directors, which 
includes H. F. Davidson, New York City, second vice-presi¬ 
dent; E. M. Burns, third vice president; D. C. Miner, secre¬ 
tary of the company; Kingsley Stephenson, treasurer; C E 
Wilcox, vice-president of Sprague, Warner Co., Chicago; C 
B. Spencer, Newberg; W. A. Frost, president W. A ^Frost 
Brokerage Company, Chicago; C, C. Virgil, of Letts Spencer 
Smith Company, Mason City, Iowa; D. J. Matthews. New¬ 
berg; C. J. Pugh, Falls City, and Clarence Butt, Newberg. 



















































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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A Corner of Portland's 2500 Acre Manufacturing Center 


Sawmills — Shipyard—Mast and Spar Mill—Box Factories—Woodenware Plant — Ready-cut House Plants—Sash fy Door 
Factory—Shingle Mill—Roofing Plant—Pamt Factory—Metal and Wood Tank, Pipe and Flume Plants—Stove Works — 
Waxed Paper Plant—Macaroni Plant—Bridge Works—Dry Kiln Manufacturing—Wool Scouring—Fruit and Vegetable 

Packing—Meat Packing Plants—Stock Yards. 

Where Needs of Manufacturers Are Met 


A BEE-HIVE of industry in a 2500-acre area, where exten¬ 
sive patronage has made possible a concentration of 
facilities wanted by manufacturers for economic dispatch of 
the daily grind of business; where they have the service on 
the ground of hanks, post, express and telegraph offices, service 
of five transcontinental railroads with free switching; connec¬ 
tion with deep water to the sea, street car lines and adjacent 
to the largest residence section of the city, giving Portland a 
situation not surpassed by any rival community on the Pacific 
Coast. When you add to this that these sites can be supplied 
ready to build on at from $1500 to $3500 per acre on easy 
terms, or by lease, you present a condition that is not equalled 
in the West. 

No factory need remain away from Portland for want of 
suitable space on which to build, or because of excessive price 
of land. The smallest or the largest plant can be accommo¬ 
dated on trackage on any sized site. 

LEADING MANUFACTURERS 
The manufacturing center here referred to is known as 
the Peninsula Industrial District at North Portland. Firms 
which have taken advantage of the superior features offered by 
this district and located there up to the present writing are: 


Aladdin Company, Readi-cut Houses; Nicolai Door Manu¬ 
facturing Company; Durable Roofing Company; Menefee 
Shingle Mill; Monarch Lumber Mills; N. P. Sawmill; N. P. 
Box Company; West Coast Box & Lumber Company; Standi- 
fer Shipyard; Western Spar Company; Wilkinson Lumber 
Company; Oregon Packing Company; Swift & Co. Packing 
Plant; Sterrett Packing Co.; Schloesser Bros., Packing Com¬ 
pany; Portland Union Stockyards; Korinek Remedy Com¬ 
pany; Coast Culvert & Flume Company; Moore Dry Kiln 
Company; Western Waxed Paper Company; Pacific Products 
Company; Portland Stove Works; Oregon Scouring Mills; 
Union Bridge Company; Victory Paint Company; National 
Tank and Pipe Company, and Porter-Scarpelli Macaroni 
Company. 

LESS THAN 200 ACRES USED 

A number of other substantial local industries have secured 
sites in this district, but are not prepared to announce their 
plans as yet. Several manufacturers from the outside are now 
negotiating for locations in this district, it is said. 

The industries above named occupy less than 200 of the 
2500 acres available, so there is no lack of space for new¬ 
comers. 























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MANUFACTURERS CITE REASONS 

Asking some of the manufacturers why they located at 
North Portland, they give various reasons: “Plentiful 

supply of empty cars on account of being in livestock center;” 
“Railroad terminal giving free switching service on five 
transcontinental railroads;” “Close proximity to large labor 
market; “Absence of congestion on account of being outside 
the business center of the city;” Low price of property;” 
“how taxes on account of being outside the city limits and not 
being subject to numerous building restrictions required by 
the city.” 

The Aladdin Co., one of the largest industries recently 
brought to Portland, lays particular stress on the features 
of low taxes and absence of troublesome restrictions, and 
many of Portland’s foremost business men are agreed that 
as a means of encouraging manufacturers to come to Port¬ 
land and help swell her payrolls, the North Portland terri¬ 
tory should be kept permanently out of the city. The busi¬ 
ness of the concerns there now amounts to close to One 
Hundred and Twenty-five Million Dollars a year. 

The Peninsula Industrial District is managed by 
Alfred A. Aya, maintaining an office at North Portland and 
uptown quarters in the Corbett Building. 


LIVESTOCK CENTER OF COAST 

In addition to being the leading manufacturing center of 
the Northwest, this district is the only nationally recognized 
livestock center on the Pacific Coast. It is here that the Pacific 
International Livestock Exposition building was erected in 
1919, the largest building of its kind in flic world. 

The Portland Union Stockyards serves as a market for live¬ 
stock from many western states. Some conception of the 
magnitude of the livestock business handled in the territory 
served by this center is gained when it is known that the 
clearings of the Live Stock State Bank at North Portland 
average well over one million dollars for every working day 
in the year. 

The Columbia Basin Wool Warehouse Company is another 
industry of magnitude having its headquarters at North Port¬ 
land. It is the only concern of its kind in the United States 
outside of Boston. It has stabilized the sheep and wool busi¬ 
ness of the west. The Columbia Basin Wool Warehouse Com¬ 
pany, the Portland Cattle Loan Company and the Live Stock 
State Bank loan close to one hundred million dollars annually 
to stockmen and farmers of the Northwest. 



T. A. Livesley and Company 

T HE firm of T. A. Lives¬ 
ley and Company, hop 
dealers, whose main offices 
are in Salem, Oregon, is the 
largest concern of its kind 
on the Pacific Coast. More 
than $1,000,000 in hops is 
handled annually. The com¬ 
pany operates 1200 acres 
of land, 700 acres of which 
is planted to hops. 

T. A. Livesley and John 
J. Roberts are co-partners in 
the business. Aside from 
the field superintendents em¬ 
ployed the year round, as 
well as a staff of inspectors 
nd office employees, the company employs about 100 field 
ands in the months of May, June, July and August, and dur- 
lg the picking season about 1700 pickers The picking sea- 
311 begins in August and generally runs about tour weeks. 

The & workers in the field form a large-sized colony during 
icking season, the company furnishing an excellent camp- 
ig grounds, with houses and tents. The top wages are paid, 
lie workers not only receiving large sums for their labor, but 
n enjoyable outing as well. 

Mr. Livesley has been in the hop business on the coast tor 
ver 45 years. In speaking of the industry he said: 

“Since the United States has gone on a dry basis most of 
ur hops go to England and foreign countries. A very small 
roportion of our hops are being used in the United States 
or making near beer. Before the United States became dry 
le greater portion was consumed at home in the manufacture 
f lager beer. In the United States we sell direct to consumers, 
dvile in London we sell to the factors. 

“We expend in production of hops in labor supplies an 
alaries in connection with the handling of hops the sum of 
200,000 annually. The greater part of this money goes direct 
ito the homes. We consider this one of the best industries 
or the distribution of money in the state.” 


Link-Belt Company of Washington 

r IMIE growth in the business of the Portland branch of the 
, Link-Belt Company of Washington is attracting consider¬ 
able attention among Portland machinery men. 

The concern opened up the local house six years ago, and 
due to a poor location, business was unsatisfactory. To give 
the field a thorough try-out, the present location, in the center 
of the “machinery row” was chosen. Business at once in¬ 
creased, and the house today is among the most prosperous in 
the cit}^. 



Carl A. Magnuson, well-known among coast machinery sup¬ 
ply house men and manufacturers as well, has been in charge 
of the business since it was established here. Mr. Magnuson 
is a strong booster for Oregon and the Northwest, and has 
taken an active interest in local industrial affairs. 

The Link-Belt Company manufactures machinery for the 
mechanical handling of material. The line includes conveying 
machinery of all kinds. 


Oregon has more varieties of wood in commercial quantities 
than any state in the United States. Sugar and Yellow Pine 
— Red and Yellow Fir—Spruce—Port Orford Cedar and Red¬ 
wood are leading varieties. 





















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HESSE-MARTIN IRON WORKS 



ITH a foundry, machine shop, forging plant and pat¬ 
tern shop, each complete in every detail, the Hesse-Mar- 
tin Iron Works is one of the largest and most completely 
equipped plants of its kind on the coast. Sawmill equipment 
is turned out exclusively by the company. P'red Hesse is at 
the head of the big company. G. F. Mitchell, one of the best 


known mill men on the Pacific Coast, has recently become 
sales manager. Mt. Mitchell designed, installed and operated 
the government spruce cut-up plant at Vancouver. Sawmill 
equipment is designed, built and installed by the company 
throughout the Northwest, as well as California. 



Oregon Welding and Machine Works 

S OME of the largest welding jobs ever attempted in the 
Northwest, have recently been turned out in the plant of 
the Oregon Welding and Machine Works. One of the cast¬ 
ings welded weighed seven tons. 

The Oregon Welding & Machine Works was organized in 
1910, by Fritz Wolff and J. L. Davis, for the purpose of doing 
all kinds of acetylene welding, cutting and repair work. 

In 1918 these partners and C. B. Miners, who was conduct¬ 
ing a machine and repair shop, were consoldiated under the 
incorporated name of Oregon Welding & Machine Works. 
They are prepared to do all kinds of acetylene welding and 
cutting, thermit and electric welding, general repair work and 
any kind of machine work, including cylinder grinding and 
gear cutting. 

All three interested partners are practical men and do their 
share of work along with the rest. They do not employ a 
large force, only working ten men altogether, but as all are 
experienced men, and none apprentices, the payroll amounts 
to about $25,000 a year. 

The equipment includes a complete welding shop for each 
kind of welding—thermit, electric and acetylene—with port¬ 
able outfits for outside work. The shop is equipped with 
cranes for the convenient handling of heavy work. Machine 
tools of all kinds are in readiness for emergency work as well 
as regular jobs. 

The plant is located at 305 Glisan street, corner of Fifth. 


Gillen-Chambers Company 

T^HE Gillen-Chambers Company specializes in the insulation 
of heat, cold and sound; have in the past twenty years 
insulated the boilers, steam, exhaust, hot water, cold water, 
also brine and ammonia pipes in the principal buildings of 
Portland; and much of this class of work in the surrounding 
cities. They also have insulated boilers and steam pipes on 
most of the river steamers and in the new shipbuilding era of 
the past two and one-half years, and have taken care of the 
insulation work one one hundred and thirty-five ships. 

The company specializes in high grade refractory materials, 
chrome, magnesite and plastic fire brick, armorcote boiler set¬ 
ting coating, armorcote roofing cement, preservative coatings 
and roof paints, also stack and boiler paint, deck paint and 
bridge paint. 

As representatives of the Armstrong Cork & Insulation 
Company they stock a large quantity of nonpariel eorkboard 
insulation and cork pipe covering for brine, ammonia and ice 
water systems. 

In addition to manufacturing asbestos insulating materials 
their factory department turns out several specialties that are 
distributed over a large territory. Both the factory and con¬ 
tracting departments are largely made up of men who have 
been with the company for from fifteen to twenty years, which 
means reliable and efficient workmanship. 

The company was established in 1889. J. O. Gillen is pres¬ 
ident, Maynard Cole is vice-president and Arthur Cole is sec¬ 
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CROWN MILLS—THE HOME OF “CROWN FLOUR” 


M. Seller & Co. 

LARGE extension lias been made by M. Seller & Co., in 
their hotel equipment department. This department has 
been increased to embrace all lines of furnishings for hotels, 
restaurants, lumber camps, and any institutions feeding large 
numbers of people. 

In addition to increasing the variety of the stock in this 
department, this progressive institution has added complete 
lines of kitchen machinery, and kitchen equipment It is now 
a special department, where complete plans can be drawn 
for the equipping of both dining rooms and kitchens, and is 
wonderfully well equipped to furnish such institutions with 
everything appeartaining to such institutions. All that is 
necessary for the prospective buyer to do is to furnish a floor 
plan, giving dimensions of the room into which a restaurant 
or kitchen will be put, and the experts in this new department 
of M. Seller & Co., will draw complete plans showing the most 
up-to-date arrangements, and embracing the newest labor 
saving devices. 

In this equipment department, M. Seller & Co are repre¬ 
senting exclusively many nationally known lines, and can 
show the wonderful labor saving devices in actual operation, 
such as the new Edison Bake Ovens, Crescent Dish Washing 
Machines, Lang Ranges, etc. Well known experts are em¬ 
ployed in this department, and cheerfully seek the opportu¬ 
nity of submitting plans and giving advice to all interested 
inquirers. 

The firm of M. Seller & Co., lias been built on service, and 
dependable goods. The company was established in 1859 by 
M. Seller, who retired in the late eighties. P. Lowengart then 


took over the management of the business, and has been in 
active charge since that time. Associated with him now are 
F. M. Seller, son of the founder of the business, and Mr. 
Lowengart’s son, Sanford Lowengart. The company is one 
of the largest in this line in the United States. The local 
institution is located at Fifth and Pine streets and covers more 
floor space, occupying a seven-story building and basement, 
160x100 feet, than any similar exclusive wholesale house on 
the Pacific Coast. In addition to this, the company has a 
large warehouse at Thirteenth and Kearney streets, as well as 
several branch warehouses on the track. They also maintain 
large wholesale houses in Seattle and Spokane. Purchasing 
offices are maintained in New York. Also it has its purchasing 
offices in Kobe, Japan, and several cities in Europe. 

Aside from the permanent staff, buyers from the local 
house are continually traveling in Europe and the Orient. 
Over 500 people are in the employ of the company. 

M. Seller & Co., are exclusive selling agents for many 
national and international known lines. The goods they han¬ 
dle consist among others of the fellowing— 

Crockery, glassware, stoneware, lamps, lanterns, electric 
lamps, tinware, enamelware, woodenware, washing machines, 
stoves, refrigerators, ranges, heaters, stovepipe, silverware, 
cut glass, table cutlery, pocket cutlery, clocks, flashlights, 
batteries, scissors, shears, toys, dolls, velocipedes, wheel goods, 
pyralin ivory, pathe phonographs and records. 


Oregon lias the largest knitting factory on the coast—Ore¬ 
gon-grown wool manufactured in heart of wool district opens 
the world as a market. 










































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Northwest Bridge and Iron Works 



T HE Northwest Bridge and Iron Works is one of the most 
completely equipped fabricating plants on the Pacific 
Coast, capable of turning out anything in the line of bridges, 
buildings, tanks, towers, mill and smelter work up to a capacity 
of five or six thousand tons per month. 

There is in connection with this structural shop a bolt and 
rivet shop with a capacity of approximately three thousand 
tons per month of rivets, bolts, up-set rods and similar forg¬ 
ings. The company specializes in the matter of ship and 
boiler rivets, all steel for the manufacture of rivets being 
inspected botli by Lloyd’s Register of Shipping and the Ameri¬ 
can Bureau of Shipping. 

The territory over which the concern sells covers the states 
of Oregon, Washington and most of Idaho, which territory is 
varied from time to time by changes in freight rates, which 
either opens up new territory or cut out old territory, as the 
case may be. They maintain an office in Seattle, and have had 
during the last season a very large proportion of our work 


from that territory. The company carries the largest and most 
comprehensive stock of structural steel shapes, bars and plates 
of any concern in the Northwest. 

Due to the wide experience of the Northwest Bridge and 
Iron organization, extending over a long period of years, and 
the fact that the plant is equipped with all the latest devices 
for the handling of material in large quantities, the company 
is at the present time in a position to render exceedingly 
prompt service in anything in connection with the bridge and 
structural steel line. 

Cranes and other special equipment make it possible to load 
heavy materials in great quantities directly onto cars as well 
as onto barges or ships. Material can be received in the same 
manner. 

Steel has been furnished by the company for some of the 
longest bridges, the highest towers and the largest buildings 
in the Northwest. & 


Columbia Awning and Shade Co. 

S ALES are made through the entire Northwest by the Co¬ 
lumbia Awning and Shade Company. The company manu¬ 
factures awnings and shades of every description, as well as 
other canvass goods. Twenty-five people are employed in the 
factory. The company was established in 1907. The factory, 
salesroom and offices are located at 188 Second street. Max 
Sommers is president and manager of the company; H. J. 
Dygert, vice-president; M. S. Hirsch, secretary-treasurer. 


John Clark Saddlery Company 

THE John Clark Saddlery Company is well known in the 
Northwest, because of the splendid goods that has been 
turned out in the company’s plant during the years that it has 
been established. The company manufactures a high «rade 
line of harness, saddlery and chaps. The factory is located 
at Front and Washington streets, with a salesroom located at 
101 Front street. W. T. Clark is president; Mrs. Rachael is 
vice-president, and S. E. Helliwell, secretary. 






















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Albers Bros. Milling Co. 



1 1 ''HE success of the Albers Bros. Milling Co. can be attribu- 
■*- ted largely to this principle in selecting locations: “Where 
rail and water meet.” It was the thought in mind when the 
first plant was built in Portland in 1898 and the idea upper¬ 
most in mind each succeeding time when other locations were 
chosen. All docks are accessible to the largest vessels. 

Products of quality steadily advertised have further attribu¬ 
ted to the phenomenal success of the company. Just how 
unusually successful the company has been is shown by a 
comparison of sales after the company had been established 
fifteen years and twenty-five years. Sales at the end of the 
fifteen year period had reached $5,000,000. Ten years later 
products marketed by the company amounted to $20,000,000. 

Nine mills are opperated by the company, which have a 
total floor space of 1,326,420 square feet. The plants are lo¬ 
cated in Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Bellingham, Ogden, San 
Francisco’, Oakland and Los Angeles. Each of the mills are 
modern throughout, and only the highest grade products in 
the various lines are manufactured. 


The present Portland plant was erected in 1910 and is 
located on the west side of the Willamette river. The building 
is over a thousand feet in length. About 250 men are on the 
payroll and a full line of cereals and flour as well as poultry 
and stock feeds are produced. 

In addition to offices located in cities where mills are located, 
branches are maintained in Kobe, Shanghai, Manila, Sydney, 
Honolulu, Valparaiso, and New York. 

The principal brands of the company are: Albers flaplack 
flour, Albers Oats, Albers Peacock Buckwheat Flour, Albers 
Wheat Flakes, Albers Pearls of Wheat, Carnation Oats, Sun- 
ripe Oats, Carnation Wheat Flakes, etc. About 200 brands 
are manufactured under the Albers, Carnation, Peacock, Sun- 
ripe and Del Monte trade mlarks. Fifty brands of stock and 
poultry feeds, including Albers molasses feeds, Berkshire hog 
feeds, and Albers poultry feed are known and referred to' bv 
stock and poultry raisers everywhere. 


Portland Furniture Manufacturing Co. 


OTWITHSTANDING a serious 
shortage in materials, the output of 
the Portland Furniture Manufacturing 
Company is so far this year fully 25 
per cent over that of last year. In 1919 
the output amounted to $250,000. 

The Portland Furniture Manufactur¬ 
ing Company was established here six¬ 
teen years ago by Pred Jennings, who 
still operates the plant. The factory was 
then located at Fiont and Ash street. 

In 1907 it was destroyed by fire and 
the present $100,000 plant was erected. 

The company specializes in high 
grade davenports, davenport chairs, 
chairs, mattresses, pillows and uphol¬ 
stering. Sixty men are employed, and 
the payroll amounts to $100,000 a year. 

The building is three stories and is lo¬ 
cated at 1249-1259 Macadam road. The factory site is three - 

acres, allowing ample room for storage of lumber, and possible In handling of agricultural implements, Portland is the 

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Neustadter Brothers 

N EUSTADTER BROS. 

are manufacturers of 
the well known “Boss of 
the Road” overalls and work¬ 
ing clothes, including Stand¬ 
ard shirts in cotton, woolen 
and silk materials suitable 
for every need. 

While the company spe¬ 
cializes in goods of their own manufacture, they also distribute 
a complete line of men’s wearing apparel, excepting suits and 
overcoats. The entire 
Northwest and Alaska is 
covered by salesmen from 
the local offices. 

Neustadter Brothers, 

Portland, was established 
in 1877, being a branch 
of Neustadter Brothers, 

San Francisco, which was 
established about 1856. 

In 1903 the factory in 
San Francisco was no 
longer able to take care 
of their requirements of 
the two large distributing 
organizations, and a small 
unit was started in Port¬ 
land. This factory has 
increased twice since originally built, and is now employing 
about 400 people making the well known lines of N. B. 
products. 



Columbia Digger Company 

I N the sand and gravel business no company in the west is 
better known than the Columbia Digger Company. The 
company operates a huge wharf and maintains cement ware¬ 
houses, in addition to its towing and lightering business. 

The Columbia Digger Company was formerly owned by 
Capt. M. A. Hackett, and was established in Portland in 
1894. At the head of the present corporation is Lloyd Bates, 
one of the city’s most progressive business men. C. W. Ilelme 
is vice-president and H. I.. Raffety is secretary-treasurer of 
the company. 

The offices are located on the Bates dock, at the foot of 
Burnside street. The above is a view of the dock and ware¬ 
house. So extensive are the operations of the company that 
it requires two full blocks of wharfage space to handle the 
business. 

Mr. Bates is also at the head of the Union Laundry Co. 


Schaefer Copper Works 

P LANS have been ap¬ 
proved by August Sch¬ 
aefer, owner of the Schaefer 
Copper Works, for an addi¬ 
tion to the present copper- 
smithing plant at 22nd and 
Nicolai Streets, which will 
double the capacity. The 
improvements include the 
extension of the main shops, 
the erection of a machine 
shop, offices and drafting 
rooms. 

Rapid progress has been 
made in the establishment 
of the business by Mr. 

Schaefer since he finished 
his war work. He has been 
a resident of Portland for about ten years and has a wide ac- 
quaintence among industrial operators and professional men. 
Mr. Schaefer is a chemical and constructing engineer, also 
a practical coppersmith. Years of practical experience in big 
work was preceeded by an education in the Polytechnic Uni¬ 
versity at Linden. Hanover, Germany, one of the greatest 
institutions of its kind in existence. 

Before the war Mr. Schaefer was half owner and vice- 
president of the Northwest Process Co. and this plant was 
purchased outright by the Emergency Fleet Corporation. 

This copper works occupies a block and a half and was the 
largest individual coppersmith shop in the world. About 
160 ships on which a great deal of copper work was installed, 
were equipped by this plant during the war period 

When his patriotic work was completed Mr. Schaefer re¬ 
entered the manufacturing business, doing the same kind of 
work which he has done before and which he had given up 
when the emergency arose. 

The Schaefer Copper Works maintain the largest individu¬ 
ally owned laboratory in the state of Oregon for the purpose 
of research work and for the benefit of their customers ex¬ 
clusively. 

Mr. Schaefer is also a chemical engineer and a member of 
the American Chemical Society and has helped to solve quite 
a number of problems, such as the manufacture of alcohol 
from sulphite waste liquors, and the refining of peppermint 
and other essential oils. 

Mr. Schaefer has equipped nearly every milk condenscry 
here on the coast with special equipment of vacuum apparatus 
and at the present time is busily engaged with a number of 
large contracts of this nature. 

Schaefer Copper Works specializes in designing, building 
and installing special equipment for milk condensaries, can¬ 
neries and candy factories. He has a scientific knowledge of 

needs bUSineSSeS ' ^ ^ designed to meet their special 


Adams Garment Manufacturing Co. 

'T'HE Adams garment, sold at the leading stores throughout 
the Northwest, comes from the plant of the Adams Gar¬ 
ment Manufacturing Company, which is located at Second and 
Main streets. The company has made a remarkable record 
Mrs. C. G. Adams, wife of the packer, started the business just 
a little over a year ago, with but a few dollars. The company 
is now incorporated for $100,000, employs a large number of 
operators, and sells in large quantities in competition with the 
biggest manufacturers. Aprons and wash dresses are included 
in the Adams line. 















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Pacific Marine Iron Works 



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T3EALIZING the necessity for something that would enable 
-*-*• vessels to undergo needed repairs while loading or unload¬ 
ing their cargoes, the Pacific Mhrine Iron Works has con¬ 
structed and placed in operation this floating machine and re¬ 
pair shop. In a word, it is the latest and most valuable facility 
available to vessels operating out of Portland and the entire 
Columbia River district. 

This shop has a fully equipped machine shop sufficient to 
handle any engine or repair work; a complete boiler repair 
equipment with air compressors and air tools; electric and oxy- 
acetylene welding and cutting equipment; a complete black- 
smithing equipment and all tools for outside work, including 
chain blocks, jacks, etc. 

The particular advantage of this floating machine shop is 
that it can be moored along side of vessels for the purpose of 
attending to repairs or installation while vessels are loading 
or discharging cargoes. Ship owners and operators will realize 
its importance from every standpoint, especially in the matter 
of economy and quick dispatch. 


The shop is a valuable auxiliary to the extensive engine and 
boiler building plant of the Pacific Marine Iron Works which 
is advantageously located on Portland’s water front. 

Some idea of the accomplishments of this floating machine 
and repair shop and the promptness with which work has al¬ 
ready been performed can be obtained from the following— 

The steamship “Diablo,” 8800 tons, was given 13 days guar¬ 
antee on general repairs to machinery and boilers. The work 
was completed in 10 days. 

The steamship “Duquesne,” 9500 tons, was given 12 days 
guarantee on general repair work. The work was completed 
in eight days. 

The Pacific Marine Iron Works does marine work exclus¬ 
ively, specializing in repairs. The plant commenced opera¬ 
tions in 1918 and immediately won a record for war work. 
About 225 men are regularly employed, and the payroll 
amounts to $400,000. The investment in the plant is about 
half a million dollars. 


M. and M. Woodworking Co. 


T HE M. & M. Woodworking Company has rapidly won rec¬ 
ognition in the lumber manufacturing business of the 
Northwest. The company turns out mill work of all kinds, 
including sash and doors. Phonograph cabinets are also made 
in the plant. Recently the company received an order for 
stepladders from an eastern house, which requires several 
trainloads in shipping. Jos. A. Marlarjev is president of the 
company. 


Stewart Bros. Company 

T HE Stewart Bros. Company has played an important part 
in the development of the logging and mill business in the 
Northwest. Locking blocks and supplies of all kinds are fur¬ 
nished by the company. The Stewart Bros. Company’s plant 
is located at Raleigh and Quinby streets, and offices in the 
Multnomah hotel building on Pine street. R. A. Stewart is 
president of the company; Geo. Danz is vice-president, and 
Geo. W. Price secretary-treasurer. 














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Willamette Iron & Steel Works 


\ MONG the Pacific Northwest’s most stable and progressive 
-t*- industries—one that has played a large and important 
part in the manufacture, particularly, of logging machinery, 
and marine and stationary boilers—is the Willamette Iron & 
Steel Works of Portland, Oregon. 



This large plant, with facilities equal to those of any ma¬ 
chinery manufacturing concerns on the Pacific Coast, enjoys 
the recognition of having been the leading factor in the devel¬ 
opment of the logging industry. 

Through the designing and manufacture of distinct types of 
logging engines, of great capacity, speed and power, Wil¬ 



lamette engineers have assisted Pacific Coast loggers in over¬ 
coming the problems of removing large timber from the rugged 
mountainous coast territory. These engines are to be found 
in all the logging operations of importance on the coast. 

In the manufacture of Scotch marine boilers, the Willamette 
plant holds an enviable record for production. With ample 


facilities for marine installations, and marine repairs of any 
character, together with its advantageous location, the Wil¬ 
lamette Iron & Steel Works is a valuable asset to Portland’s 
industrial and port activities. 


Coast Culvert and Flume Company 

/~\NE of the many manufacturing plants in Portland that has 
been very successful and that manufactures a line of 
goods that play a prominent part in the development of the 
Northwest is the Coast Culvert & Flume Company, whose 
factory is located at Kenton. 

In 1901 this plant, under the name of the Security Vault & 
Metal Works, began the manufacture of corrugated metal 
culverts for use under county roads, state roads and railroads. 
This type of culvert being an innovation in this class of work, 
buyers were skeptical, which naturally necessitated a long, 
uphill and aggressive campaign to demonstrate the practica¬ 
bility and durability and economy of this type of culvert. The 
trade gradually increased until in 1910 the capitalization of 
the company was increased and the name changed to the Coast 
Culvert & Flume Company and three acres of land on the O.- 
W. R. R. & N. track purchased at Kenton, and a new factory 
building put up covering about 9000 square feet. Additional 
buildings have been added until the plant now has over 30,000 
square feet under roof. 

Since that time the company has added several new lines in 
its plant, such as metal fluming for transmitting water for ir¬ 
rigation purposes, all types of irrigation gates, drainage gates, 
measuring devices, metal grain bins in capacities of from 1000 
bushels to 5000 bushels for storing grain in bulk by the 
farmers; a full line of metal tanks of all sizes for oil, water 
and gasoline; a full line of smooth pipe for both light and 
heavy pressure in all diameters from four inches to five feet, 
in lock seam type and riveted pijrn. 

Recently the company has installed one of the largest arc 
welding equipments on the coast for electrically welding tanks, 
pipe and other products. They are now getting out a full line 
of farm convenience specialties, such as automatic watering 
troughs and feeding devices for hogs, cattle and sheep- 
iceless coolers and chemical toilets that operate without a water 
system. 


r radically every county and city in the Northwest are now 
large users of corrugated culverts manufactured bv this plant 
from Armco iron The United States reclamation service 
and practically all the irrigation districts in the West are large 
users of these corrugated culverts, metal flumes and drainage 
and irrigation gates Practically every wheat section in the 

If T S f ge nUmberS ° f itS corru g a ted grain bins of metal, 
and other farm conveniences are now in use in many homes 
and farms in the West. J 


rr, W Lom P e ient organization in all de¬ 

partments They keep twelve salesmen on the road and aboui 
forty employees in their factory and office. John S. Beall i 

E0 ' Ver ’ ViCC »- E ' W. Gibson" 


Portland Rubber Mills 

T^HE Portland Rubber Mills has recently moved into its new 
1 plant at Macadam Road and Nevada streets, which has 
been fitted with the most modern machinery known to the busi¬ 
ness. Mechanical rubber goods of all kinds are turned out at 
the plant, as well as rubber cement and leather belting. The 
famous Portland Non-Skid heels are made here. H. C. Hunt¬ 
ington, leader in the Associated Industries of Oregon, is owner 
of the plant. 










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Stark-Davis Company 


Eugene Woolen Mill Company 

T HE most modern machinery known to the business is used 
in the plant of the Eugene Woolen Mill Company, at 
Eugene. The company operates its own scouring mills, the 
plant including mill and wool house, storage house, office 
and shipping room, occupies about eight acres. The property 
adjoins the business section of the city, and has direct rail 
connections. 

Wool from Southern Oregon growers is made up into eassi- 
meres, mackinaws, blankets and flannels. The output is about 
300,000 yards a year, and is sold principally on the Pacific 
Coast. 

Eight people are employed at the plant, the payroll amount¬ 
ing to about $85,000 annually. Four sets of cards, with 24 
looms are operated in the plant. 

The Eugene Woolen Mill Company started in 1906 with a 
$30,000 plant. At present the concern has assets running 
close to $250,000. Emil Koppe is president. When the con¬ 
cern started Mr. Koppe was superintendent of the mill. In 
1911 he took over the interest of Tlios. B. Kay, one of the 
founders, and took his sons into the business. The officers 
the directors are as follows: 

Emil Koppe, president; C. J. Howe, vice-president and 
assistant manager; J. J. Kauffman, secretary; A. W. Pord, 
Paul Koppe, Louis Koppe and Otto Koppe. 

Mr. Koppe is also president of the Eugene Power Com¬ 
pany, which furnishes power for a number of large industrial 
plants in Eugene. The power company develops 600 horse¬ 
power. 


T HE Stark-Davis Company recently moved into their new 
quarters at 188-190 Fourth street, being forced from their 
former location owing to the fact that they needed more 
space to handle the increased business. 

The Stark-Davis Company deals in plumbing and electrical 
supplies of all kinds, doing a jobbing business in connection. 
The firm was established eighteen years ago by A. J. Davis 
and the late P. M. Davis. 

The new home of the company is of four stories, besides a 
large basement. An elevator has been installed. 

The company does a wholesale and retail business, selling 
all over the Northwest. 



Clarke County Iron Works 

C LARKE COUNTY IRON WORKS, engineers, machinists 
and pattern makers, located at 104-106 North Fourth St. 
The company was established in 1910. Charles B. Hirschbuhyl 
is the owner. 


Willamette Pattern Works 



NEW concern that has quick¬ 
ly developed a large payroll 
is the Willamette Pattern Works, 
located 201-5 East Water street. 
Although established only two 
years, the company has a payroll 
of $30,000 a year. Models are 
made for inventors, as well as pat¬ 
terns of all kinds. Marine work 
is specialized in. E. W. Hammer, 
whose portrait appears here, is 
manager. Fred A. Austin is su¬ 
perintendent of the plant. 


Oregon Sheet Metal Works 

E XTENSIVE improvements have recently been made in the 
plant of the Oregon Sheet Metal Works, located at 146 
Front street. The company has been established since 1906, 
and is thoroughly equipped for turning out sheet metal work 
of all kinds. 

The lines manufactured by the concern include boat, ship, 
hotel and restaurant work. French ranges, stacks, tanks, 
steam tables, canopies, dish trucks, sinks, tin and copper cook¬ 
ing utensils, and other sheet metal products are made to order. 

Aside from the men employed in the shops, a crew is em¬ 
ployed to take care of installations. C. W. Mau is owner and 
manager of the concern. 





















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Portland Gas & Coke Co. 

HE Portland Gas & Coke Company of Portland, Oregon, 
was incorporated in 1910, and supplies gas to Portland, 
Oregon City, Hillsboro, Forest Grove, and twenty-one rural 
communities in tile neighborhood of Portland. The company’s 
magnificent new plant at Linnton, on the Willamette River, a 
few miles below Portland, was put in operation in 1913, and 
was built to accommodate an ultimate capacity of fifteen mil¬ 
lion cubic feet per day. 

The company manufactures over seven million pounds of 
gas briquets per month, which briquets being “all heat—no 
ash” are in such demand that many orders have to be turned 
down every winter. These briquets are sold direct to the con¬ 
sumer, and in outlying cities from the company’s agents. 

The total number of people employed by the company is 
575 with a total annual payroll of $800,000. The directors 
of the company are: C. F. Adams, John A. Laing, R. L. 
Sabin, E. W. Hill, H. L. Corbett, Geo. F. Nevins, Guy W. 
Talbot, S. Z. Mitchell, D. T. Honeyman. I). C. O Reilly and 
F. G. Svpes. 

Its officers are as follows: Guy W. Talbot, president; John 
A. Laing, vice-president; Geo. F. Nevins, secretary-treasurer; 
C. W. Platt, assistant secretary-treasurer and Hilmar Papst, 
general manager. 

Although the company is doing a very large business, and 
has made service its motto, it still has an enormous field which 


is barely touched, namely: the heating of homes, garages, 
water, etc. 

Its officers and managers are fully aware of the opportuni¬ 
ties before them and are constantly devising ingenious appli¬ 
ances to make life easier and to increase the joy of living, as 
for instance the Gasco Furnace, which lias made such a hit 
and does away with all labor, basement chores, and solves the 
smoke nuisance problem. A new garage heater has just been 
built which stands the severest tests applied by the fire depart¬ 
ment. Other devices, too many to mention, are in course of 
construction and an aggressive campaign of putting its wares 
before the public is being pursued. 


Pierce-Tomlinson Electric Company 

'T'HE Pierce-Tomlinson Electric Company has built up a 
( business in a few years that has put it among the leaders 
in its business. 

Starting with a plant at 302 Pine street, where no help was 
employed, the company has grown continuously until today 
they occupy a splendidly equipped store at 286 Oak street 
and employ half a score of helpers, with a $15,000 payroll. 

The company is composed of T. Frank Pierce as president, 
and John R. Tomlinson, secretary-treasurer. 

The company does a general electrical business, including 
wiring, repairing and fixtures. The line of supplies includes 
Mazda lamps, electrical heating and cooking devices. The 
business is confined to Portland and vicinity. 

































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Shaver Transportation Comapny 


r I MdE Shaver Transportation Com- 
pany operates a fleet of nine 
steamers and is one of the oldest es¬ 
tablished business concerns of the 
city. The company’s docks is located 
at the foot of Davis street, where 
offices are maintained in connection. 

The following steamers are in the 
fleet: Shaver, Sarah Dixon, Hender¬ 
son, Cascades, No Wonder, State of 
Washington, Wanna, Echo mid Pearl. 
Aside from these steamers, three gas¬ 
oline launches are operated. The 
Shaver Transportation Company 
does a general towing business. Del- 
mer Shaver is president of the com¬ 
pany. Other officers are: J. W. 
Shaver, secretary and manager; Lin¬ 
coln Shaver, vice president, and Geo. 
M. Shaver, treasurer. The company 
has work shops on the east side. 



The Fithian-Barker Shoe Company 

T HE Fithian-Barker Shoe Company was organized Febru¬ 
ary 23, 1910, by O. H. Fithian and Simon B. Barker. 

Mr. Fithian has been identified with the wholesale shoe busi¬ 
ness for the last thirty years. In the early days of the Pacific 
Northwest he represented eastern houses in the territory, and 
in 1905 associated himself with others in organizing the 
Dougherty-Fithian Shoe Company. In 1910 he withdrew 
from this concern and organized the Fithian-Barker Shoe 
Company. 

Mr. Fithian is a man with a clear vision and a keen student 
of the shoe business, with the result that the organization has 
shown wonderful strides in the wav of increased volume of 
business and enlarged territory now being covered. 

At the present time goods are being sold in the territory 
comprised of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Califor¬ 
nia, Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands. A corps of salemen, 
twelve in number, have succeeded in carrying the line into all 
of these districts on a very extensive basis until now the * om¬ 
pany is enjoying the largest patronage accorded to any shoe 
house in the Pacific Northwest. 

Their commodity is sold entirely to the retail trade. They 
operate no stores of their own, relying entirely upon the pat¬ 
ronage of the merchants in the Pacific Northwest district. 

The present officers of the company are: O. H. Fithian, 
president; Robert G. Fithian, vice-president; Paul De Haas, 
secretary; and Carroll K. Barker, treasurer. 

The headquarters occupied is represented by a building 
50x100, four stories and basement. A very substantial stock 
is carried at all times, being comprised of a representative 
assortment of up-to-date, high grade line of shoes, ranging 
from smallest infants’ to men’s shoes in work, dress and log¬ 
ging patterns. 

The success of the concern can be largely attributed to the 
close study of market conditions and the buying and having on 
the floor for immediate delivery of seasonable styles in a high 
standard grade of shoes. 

The merchants of the Pacific Northwest are fast beginning 
to realize the wonderful benefits and advantages to be enjoyed 
through the patronizing of concerns operating in nearby 
markets, thereby resulting in their doing an increased volume 
of business without the necessity of carrying large surplus 
stocks on hand. 


The growth of the business since its organization has neces¬ 
sitated on two occasions the increase in its capital stock and 
an analysis of their list of customers shows plainly that they 
are enjoying the patronage of the representative and success¬ 
ful business houses in the Pacific Northwest. 

Three years ago an agency was established in Honolulu, 
through the medium of which a very substantial volume of 
business is being transacted in that district. 

A very heavy demand has been created for the Master Made 
line for men, the Sincerity line for women and the Nox-all 
shoes for boys, youths, infant’s and children. 

The Fithian-Barker Shoe Company’s warehouse and offices 
are located at 28-30 Fifth street, north. 


Concrete Pipe Company 

r I 'HE Concrete Pipe 
J- Company is now in¬ 
stalling concrete pipe for 
the city of Heppner, Ore¬ 
gon, measuring over ten 
miles in length. This is 
only one of the many municipal contracts received by this com¬ 
pany in Northwest cities. 

The Concrete Pipe Company’s main plant is located at Port¬ 
land. Branch plants are operated in Tacoma, Seattle, Spo¬ 
kane, Walla Walla, Bend, Klamath Falls, Vancouver and On¬ 
tario, Canada. 

Aside from manufacturing con¬ 
crete culverts, sewer, drain, water 
and irrigation pipes, the com¬ 
pany manufactures special ma¬ 
chinery for patented pipe of their 
own origin. The company specializes in the Phil Easterdav 
system of mesh reinforced pipes and the Bullen process. 

The Concrete Pipe Company’s payroll is over $75,000 a 
vear. Phil Easterdav is vice president and general manager 
of the company; Christian Spies is president and C. H. Bullen 
is secretary-treasurer. 

Oregon is the home of dehydrated fruit, vegetables and 
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Hawley Pulp and Paper Company 

TN the enormous plant of the Hawley Pulp and Paper Com- 
pany, at Oregon City, 110 tons of paper are produced each 
twenty-four hours. Six hundred men are employed in the 
plant, and the annual payroll is over $840,000. 

The products of the Hawley Pulp and Paper Company 
include news, wrapping, towel paper, bread wraps, and fruit 
wraps, both printed and plain. 

The entire production is sold through the Graham Paper 
Company of St. Louis. The Graham concern has representa- 



WHERE THE HAWLEY PULP & PAPER COMPANY GETS ITS POWER 


tives in Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City 
and Denver, and the majority of the product from the Hawley 
plant is sold on the Pacific Coast. 

W. P. Hawley is president of the company; Willard P. 
Hawley, Jr., is vice president and general manager, and T. 
Osmund is secretary-treasurer. 

The photograph shows the Willamette Falls, which fur¬ 
nishes power for the operation of the plant. 


Waterproof Garment Company 

IMPROVEMENTS in the plant of the Waterproof Gar¬ 
ment Company, Fifth and Everett streets, were recently 
completed, whereby the floor space is doubled, new stock 
rooms are added, and a lunch room is provided for the em¬ 
ployees. 

The company was established by E. G. Titus in 1918 and 
has made a phenomenal growth. The plant represents an in¬ 
vestment of $100,000 and has an annual payroll amounting 
to $50,000. 

The company’s garments are put out under the “Will- 
V ear trademark, and are sold in leading stores throughout 
the west. The lines include outdoor clothing for men and 
women. The garments are of the highest quality, each gar¬ 
ment in the suit matches in color, and the design is original, 
being particularly suited for use in the great out-door country 
in which they are made. 

Mr. Titus is president of the company, C. M. Seeley is vice- 
president; O. W. Davidson, secretary, and R. W. Fuilerton is 
sales manager. J. E. V ittman, a factory efficiency expert and 
designer, is superintendent of the plant.' 


Thomas Kay Woolen Mill Company 

A MILLION pounds of wool in the grease, purchased al¬ 
most exclusively from Oregon growers, is made up into 
the finished product at the plant of the Thomas Kay Woolen 
Mill Company at Salem annually. The payroll at the plant 
amounts to close to $200,000. 

The Thomas Kav Woolen Mill Company was established by 
Thomas Kay, who came to Oregon in 1863. For some years 
Mr. Kay worked in a woolen mill at Salem, and later he organ¬ 
ized the Brownsville Woolen Mill at Brownsville. In 1889, 
after operating the Brownsville plant for seventeen years, Mr. 
Kay started the Ka_v mill at Salem. 

Thomas B. Kay, son of the elder Kay, was born in Trenton, 
New Jersey, a few weeks after his father departed for Oregon. 
A few months later his mother joined Mr. Kay in Salem, 
making the trija via Panama. At the age of twenty, young 
Kay started in the mercantile business at Brownsville, having 
previously had a year’s training in the retail and wholesale 
clothing business. 

Mr. Kay remained in Brownsville until 1900, when he be¬ 
came assistant to his father in the management of the Salem 
mill. Upon the death of his father, he took over the business, 
which has since developed into an important industry. Thirty- 
three looms are operated at the Kay Woolen Mills, carding and 
spinning shifts operating day and night. The products in¬ 
clude men’s and women’s suitings, overcoatings, mackinaws 
and flannels. Sales cover the entire United States, a fourth 
of the output being sold to Pacific Coast manufacturers. 

Thomas B. Kay was elected state treasurer in 1910, and 
served two terms. He has been active in all civic affairs, work¬ 
ing continually for a greater Oregon. As the result of a 
strong appeal from numberless friends, he has become a candi¬ 
date for the legislature at the coming election. 


King’s Food Products Company 

r I ''HE King’s Food Products Company with its modern plant 
at Salem, Oregon, in the heart of the Willamette valley 
and the abundant production of small fruits, berries and ex¬ 
ceptional root vegetables; and with another plant at The 
Dalles, Oregon, in the heart of the great Northwestern apple, 
peach and prune production, has dehydrated through the sea¬ 
son about 100 green tons per day and has opened the way to 
national markets and some foreign markets. Because of the 
merit and quality of the Oregon dehydrated product it has 
met with a remarkable trade acceptance and has opened the 
way for an expansion of large proportions. 

Dehydration accomplishes the extraction of the water from 
food products in such a manner that the water only is re¬ 
moved, which means that all the valuable food elements, the 
flavor and the color of the natural product are left intact. The 
cellular structure of the product is not broken down and when 
the product is placed in water again it reabsorbs the full mois¬ 
ture content of the original, thereby giving the consumer the 
ideal that he has been striving for—the quality, the flavor and 
the food value “the same as the fresh.” 

In addition to the fresh qualities of the dehydrated prod¬ 
ucts the consumer makes an enormous economic saving through 
the fact that dehydrated products are one-tenth in weight and 
about one-half the bulk of the original product. Furthermore 
there is no risk of ptomaine or other unhealthful effects be¬ 
cause the water, which is the deteriorating agent in all foods 
has been removed and in its absence there can be no contamina¬ 
tion or development of bacteria. Dehydrated products have 
been kept for years without deteriorating in food value or 
healthfulness. 

E. A. Clark is general manager of the company. 








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The H. F. Norton Co. 

HE H. F. Norton Company was founded by Homer F. 
Norton in 1896, with headquarters in Seattle. About 
twelve years ago the Portland house was opened and later 
branches were established at Bellingham, Washington and 
Nampa, Idaho. 

The company does a general hide and wool business, and in 
addition to doing a large fleece wool business operates a wool 
pullery, with a daily capacity of upwards of a thousand pelts 
per day. They also deal extensively in mohair and are as 
large, if not the largest operators in this article of any dealers 



in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to the hide, wool, tal¬ 
low and mohair business they are the largest dealers in the 
world in Cascara Bark. 

In addition to regular salaried traveling buyers who make 
principal cities and towns, the company has a large organiza¬ 
tion of local buyers throughout Oregon, Washington and 
Idaho, who buy and ship direct. They have also catered very 
strongly to the consignment business, and have built up a very 
large business of this kind. 


Clyde Equipment Co. 

HE Clyde Equipment Company, with houses in Portland 
and Seattle, sells machinery and supplies to sawmills, log¬ 
gers and contractors. Fifteen salesmen cover Oregon, Wash¬ 
ington, Northern California and Southwest Idaho. 

The principal large machinery items of the company are 
Marion steam shovels, Ohio locomotive trains, Clyde hoisting 
engines and derricks, Vulcan locomotives, Acme rock crushers, 
Royal road building equipment, Lakewood concrete mixers and 
Wheland sawmills. The main selling items at present are 
rails for loggers, building logging road extensions, steam 
shovels and road building equipment to counties and highway 
contractors, as well as sawmill machinery. 

The company was organized seven years ago under the 
name of Contractors’ Equipment Company, with the intention 
of confining their business to contractors’ machinery. Other 
lines were added and as the name was misleading, the firm 
took its present name three years ago. 

R. L. Balzer is secretary of the company, and is Portland 
manager of the company. He has had wide experience in the 
machinery business. 


Portland Galvanizing Works 

T^ROM a modest beginning nine years ago, Martin Leiser 
r*- has developed a large and growing business under the 
corporate name of Portland Galvanizing Works. The plant is 
situated at Twenty-second and Reed streets, in an expanding 
industrial district. And, Mr. Lieser selected a field in which 
there is not much competition. He operates one of the two 
galvanizing plants in Portland. 

Nine years ago Mr. Leiser, who had served in large plants 
where shipping was an important factor, concluded that Port¬ 
land offered a promising field for his endeavors. So he estab¬ 
lished himself in a small way and fitted up a plant to do small 
work. Gradually the demand for his excellent work in galv¬ 
anizing increased and he expanded his plant until today it has 
a capacity of more than 500 tons daily. 

In 1917 the business was incorporated with Mr. Leiser as 
president and manager. The plant covers the best part of a 
city block, and is fitted with all the latest equipment to serve 
the lines of shipbuilding, fishing, building construction and 
ornamental work. 

During the war the plant handled large orders for the Ship¬ 
ping Board and after the armistice was signed was an import¬ 
ant factor in local shipbuilding, since galvanizing is an essen¬ 
tial treatment for nearly all metal which enters into ship con¬ 
struction. As Portland grows as a fishing center the field of 
this concern will expand. At present the product of this plant 
goes to nearly every commercial center in Oregon, Washington, 
Idaho and Montana. 


E. L. Knight & Co. 

F OR fourteen years E. 

L. Knight & Co. have 
been foremost in the elec¬ 
trical engineering and 
construction business in 
this city. While the com¬ 
pany’s main business is 
contracting, an elegant 
retail store is maintained 
where fixtures and appli¬ 
ances of all kinds are displayed. The sign over the company’s 
door at 4-49 Washington street is an example of the splendid 
type of electrical sign work. 


Gifford Commercial Studio 

T HE Gifford Commercial Photo Studio was founded by 
Benj. A. Gifford, over thirty-five years ago in this city, 
later moving to The Dalles to secure photos of the Columbia 
River and the Indians living around that city, then locating 
in this city. 

Their line of scenic photos of the Northwest in enequalled. 
This line includes photos of all points of interest to be found 
here, and includes our famous Columbia River Highway and 
the Yellowstone National Park. 

The studio is now owned by Ralph I. Gifford and Albert O. 
Rosentreter, and they wish it to be known that they are equip¬ 
ped to do any kind of commercial photography in addition to 
their line of scenic photos. Their place of business is now 
located in the Commonwealth building, Sixth and Ankeny 
streets, where prints may be secured of any negatives on their 
files. 

The concern specializes in automobile work and is prepared 
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Oregon Life Insurance Company 

/NREGON Life Insurance Company was organized under 
the laws of Oregon and received its charter February 24, 
1906. The total business for the first year was only $624,000. 
With assets of $104,997.00. 

The fourteenth annual report of A. L. Mills, president, 
just off the press, reveals the large present totals of $20,462,- 
695.00 insurance in force, and assets of $2,093,644.00. 



C. S. SAMUEL E. H. STRONG 


Out of 44 companies operating in Oregon in 1919, Oregon 
Life wrote more than ten per cent of all new business. Only 
one company, which has been licensed in this state for over 
40 years, has more total insurance in force in Oregon. 

The active management of the company is under C. S. 
Samuel, general manager, and E. N. Strong, assistant general 
manager. Mr. Samuel has general charge and Mr. Strong is 
superintendent of agents and advertising manager. When Mr. 
Strong took charge of the agency there were ten agents. More 
than 50 agents now are licensed by the company. 

The other officers of the company are: A. L. Mills, presi¬ 
dent; Adolph Wolfe, vice president; Louis G. Clarke, vice 
president; Wm. Pollman, vice president; Sanford Smith, sec¬ 
retary; C. F. Adams, treasurer; A. J. Giesy, medical director; 
VL P. Olds, Jefferson Myers, A. H. Devers, H. L. Corbett’ 
Jos. T. Peters, J. N. Teal, Leo Friede, W, L. Thompson, J. PL 
Booth and C. C. Colt, directors. 


The Vogan Candy Company 

B ACKING a high-grade 
line of boxed and bulk 
confections with a well- 
placed advertising campaign, 
has been the means em¬ 
ployed by the Vogan Candy 
Company in building up one 
of the best known candy 
businesses in the Northwest. 
This advertising campaign 
includes space in the Satur- 
day Evening Post and widely circulated newspapers of this 
part of the country. 

The Vogan Candy Company was started’ fourteen years 
ago under the management and ownership of W. J. Vogan. 
It now occupies a quarter block on East Eleventh and Flanders 
and has a total floor space of 45,000 feet. Ordinarily it em¬ 
ploys one hundred and fifty people, and for some time has 
operated branches in Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma. Its spe¬ 
cialty is a high-grade line of boxed chocolates. 



Title and Trust Company 

T HERE are some editors 
outside the sanctums and 
from day to day over at the 
Title and Trust Company a 
string of biographies and 
histories of parcels of real 
estate are being written by 
way of Title Insurance Pol¬ 
icies, for which their cus¬ 
tomers pay. The tombs of 
history, consisting of the 
archives of the public rec¬ 
ords are searched for the 
items scattered through sev¬ 
eral hundreds of thousands 
of recorded instruments, tons 
of files and hundreds of vol¬ 
umes of court records. Tracing pedigrees is simplicity itself 
compared with piecing together the mosaic through which must 
be traced the chain of title-link-by-link from the government 
patent and ending with the present owner’s deed. 

Not much chance for friction when they are balancing legis¬ 
lative statutes and supreme court decisions, against their cap¬ 
ital, assets, and reputation on the question point of a spotless 
title to a million dollar building. 

Selling service is synonomous with selling satisfaction and 
the increasing business of this concern justifies the claim that 
it is responding to a general demand for responsibility in 
title matters. 

Robert E. Smith, president, whose photo is printed here, 
proposes the transfers of real estate in Oregon on the basis of 
100 per cent title insurance. 

Valter M. Daly, vice president and W. O. Daly, treasurer, 
look after the financial management and mortgage loan 
business. Chester A. Fuller is the secretary. 

Thirty experts complete the staff of this organization. 



W. P. Fuller and Company 

T^ROM a very small beginning, the factory of W. P. Fuller 
and Company has grown to cover 20 acres of ground, with 
most modern and up-to-date machinery for the manufacturing 
of their products. There are sixteen large branches on the 
Pacific Coast, doing business from Alaska to the Mexican line, 
and as far east as Pocatello. 

The company manufactures a complete line of paints, stains, 
and varnishes, as well as maintaining a complete plant for 
the manufacturing of lubricating oils. 

W. P. Fuller, founder of the establishment, was a native of 
New Hampshire, born in 1827. In 1849 he decided to cast his 
lot with the Argonauts, on the boat “Toronto.” 

He proceeded to the American River mining camps, where 
after one month’s work he made a decision which was the 
founding of this large establishment. 


Jacobs & Gile 

J ACOBS & GILE were among the concerns that started in 
business here during the war, specializing in iron and steel. 
They have established a large business, however, and the firm 
has been established on a firm foundation. The two partners 
are both well known among the manufacturers in the heavy 
iron and steel line. The office and plant is located at 224 East 
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J. K. Gill Company 

HE J. K. Gill Company was established in 1870. Mr 
Gill, after whom the institution is named, is still active ii 
the affairs of the company. The J. K. Gill Company occu 
pies a six-story building, covering a quarter block, at tin 
corner of Third and Alder streets, in addition to a large ware¬ 
house on Front street. 


The Gill company has supplied the school children of Port¬ 
land and environs for fifty years. Gill’s has supplied many 



men now prominent in business here today from first grade 
readers to the equipment of their large offices. Gill’s is a 
household word to them, and has been an influence in theii 
lives. 

In addition to school and office supplies, Gill’s handles books 
of all kinds, stationery, engineers’ and draftsmen’s supplies, 
and artists’ materials, kodaks, novelties, engraving, hoys and 
games. 


Company 

I N the importing and ex¬ 
porting business^ few con¬ 
cerns are beter known in 
Portland than Mitsui and 
Company. 

Local offices are main¬ 
tained at 702 Wilcox build¬ 
ing. Branches are located in 
London, Buenos Aires, New 
York, Seattle and San Fran 
cisco, as well as important 
cities in the Orient and else¬ 
where. 

Mitsui and Company have 
been established for more 
than fifteen years, and do a 
large importing and exporting business in all kinds of mer¬ 
chandise. A fleet of sixty ships is operated, the company 
owning thirty outright, in addition to having as many more 
under charter. 

Y. Moriwaki is manager of the Portland branch. Mr. 
Moriwaki’s picture appears here. He came to Portland from 
Japan about five years ago. 

The business of Mitsui and Company has developed to 
enormous proportions. The company is now capitalized at 
$10,000,000 and the constantly increasing business may neces¬ 
sitate a still further increase. 


Enke City Dye Works 

T HE Enke City Dye Works is the largest and most com¬ 
plete plant of its kind in the Northwest. The building 
occupied by the factory has a floor space cf more than 20,000 
square feet. Aside from this plant, the company maintains a 
downtown branch at 105 Broadway, besides branches at the 
Lennon and Lipman-Wolfe stores. 

The Enke plant provides work for fifty to seventy-five 
people, with an annual payroll of $75,000. A fleet of 
six delivery trucks is maintained for delivery purposes. 

Though more than 250,000 articles are handled annually in 
the cleaning and pressing departments, the other branches of 
the work are of far greater importance in maintaining such a 
large plant. Thousands of articles are handled in the dye and 
refinishing departments. The work consists largely of new 
goods, including silks, cottons and woolens from the bolts, 
as well as stockings, sox, gloves and small articles which 
have come from factories in undesirable colors and finishes. 

Improved machinery has been added, making it possible 
to make rugs and carpets new by cleaning, scouring, dyeing 
and re-finishing the material. Rugs up to fourteen feet in 
width can be handled in the dye vat. 

Feathers are cleaned by the steam method 
Draperies and curtains are dyed and cleaned in the plant 
also, with the result that the old articles compare with the 
new material. 

In the dyeing and re-finishing departments, work is done 
by the Enke plant for wholesale dealers in Spokane, Seattle, 
Tacoma and other Northwest cities. 

The Enke plant was established here by Herman Enke 
thirty years ago. Enke operated a small plant at 65 Sixth 
street, doing all the work personally. Today he is still in 
active command of the big organization, and the plant repre¬ 
sents an investment of over $100,000. David Levine, who has 
spent a lifetime in the cleaning and dyeing business, and was 
in charge of larger plants in the East, became interested in 
the firm six years ago, and is general manager of the concern. 
Since that time the business has more than trebled. 

Working conditions in the plant were given the utmost con¬ 
sideration. Sanitary composition floors, light from the top and 
three sides, and splendid ventilation account for many of the 
employes remaining in the employ of the company for ten 
years or over. 

The George Lawrence Company 

COMPLETE stock of shoes have been added to the lines 
carried by the George Lawrence Company. This will sup¬ 
plement the wide variety of shoe findings, shoe store supplies 
and shoe leather that have been carried by the company for 
some time. 

Only recently the company added a full line of automobile 
accessories. 

The George Lawrence Company is one of the oldest estab¬ 
lished concerns in the city. The business was established in 
1857 by Samuel Sherlock, and upon his death in 1876, George 
Lawrence, Sr., became manager. Later Mr. Lawrence pur¬ 
chased the business and formed the Geo. Lawrence Company 
with his two sons. 

In the harness and saddlery business, the George Lawrence 
Company has won an enviable reputation. The company owns 
its own building, occupying a quarter block, four stories in 
height, at the corner of First and Oak streets. Fifteen sales¬ 
men cover the Northwest. 


Oregon cherries, loganberries, pears, peaches, strawberries, 
prunes and apples are known and accepted in all parts of the 
U. S. as of superior quality and flavor. 



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Oregon Brass Works 

ITH the installation of new equipment and machinery 
in the plant of the Oregon Brass Works, it is now pos¬ 
sible to melt two tons of metal at a single charge, and produce 
perfect uniformity. The huge pot is heated electrically and 
rotates, assuring complete mixture of the contents. 

In addition to the two-ton furnace, a one-ton pot of the 
same type has also been installed. The improvements cost 
over $30,000. 

The Oregon Brass Works is one of the best equipped in the 



entire west. Not only is the equipment the most modern 
known to the business, but the skilled workmen, engineers and 
designers are employed to produce the highest grade of work. 

The company produces everything made of brass, specializ¬ 
ing in the various forms of journal bearings and locomotive 
bronze propellor wheels and marine fittings. Bank and office 
fixtures and cremation urns are made in artistic and appropri¬ 
ate designs. W. F. Prier is president of the company. 


Pacific Coast Cone Co. 

ORTLAND is the home of the cone baking machine. F. A. 
Bruekman, head of the Pacific Coast Cone Company in¬ 
vented the machine and established the factory ten years ago. 
The company has now ten warehouses in various parts of the 
west, from which the trade is supplied. 

The Bruekman machine turns out 3600 cones an hour. The 
cones are made by machinery entirely, and are not touched in 
the entire process of baking. The machine is circular in shape, 
heated with gas, requiring 2 and one-quarter minutes to re¬ 
volve, during which time the cone is formed and baked. 

The product of the company is put out under the name 
“Real Cake.” Four machines are operated in the Portland 
plant, and sales are made in the eleven Western states. Aside 
from.employing a large number of people, the company con¬ 
sumes more than 4,000 barrels of Oregon flour annually," $15,- 
000 worth of box wood, as well as many other items running 
into many thousands of dollars. 

C. M. Egert is manager of the company. M. D. Bruekman 
is superintendent of the plant. 


Cough drops—made in Oregon—find a market in the New 
England states and other parts of the country. 


Foster and Kleiser Company 

HE outdoor advertising business in the entire territory 
west of the Rockies is dominated by Foster and Kleiser 
Company. More than 90 per cent of the business in this ter¬ 
ritory is handled by the company. 

The company has more than seven thousand leaseholds and 
controls more than six million square feet of advertising space. 

The firm of Foster and Kleiser was established by Walter 
F. Foster and George W. Kleiser on January 1, 1902, for the 
purpose of engaging in the outdoor advertising business. At 
that time these men purchased the advertising plants and busi¬ 
nesses which had been profitably conducted by their predeces¬ 
sors for more than twenty years in Seattle, Washington, and 
Portland, Oregon. 

During the eighteen years of its existence, this company 
has shown a steady and rapid growth. It has extended its 
operations through the states of Washington, Oregon and Cal¬ 
ifornia. Today its holdings consist of advertising plants and 
facilities of the most modern character in San Francisco, Los 
Angeles, Oakland, San Jose and Vallejo, California; Port¬ 
land, Oregon; and Seattle, Tacoma, and Bellingham, Washing¬ 
ton, and more than two hundred other towns west of the 
Rocky mountains. Foster and Kleiser Company now ranks 
third in size and importance in its line in the United States. 

The natural isolation of the Pacific Coast from the re¬ 
mainder of the United States offers a particularly advantage¬ 
ous field for this company, which, by virtue of its connections 
,with all the larger Eastern advertising concerns, together with 
its own sales, art and desiging force, enjoys a very large pro¬ 
portion of all outdoor advertising done in this territory. The 
company has shown a steady and continuous growth in volume 
of business and corresponding growth in profits. It owns the 
necessary real estate, buildings, offices, studios. Its advertis¬ 
ing structures are standardized, all in the best of physical 
condition and well distributed for advertising purposes. 
Phrough its connections with advertising agencies and Eastern 
producing concerns it is the natural outlet for advertising con¬ 
tracts originating in the East to be executed on the Pacific 
Coast. The outlook for the business of the company was 
never brighter than at present. The year 1920 promises to be 
the largest in point of volume of business and profits during 
the history of the company. 


American Marine Iron Works 

ITH the installation of new machinery, the American 
Marine Iron Works has been converted from a plant for 
the production of materials necessary for war work, to one 
of the best equipped foundries on the" Pacific Coast. 

J he company specializes in marine castings, being equipped 
to make in a solid cast, propellers measuring 16 feet, 3 inches 
from tip to tip, including the hub. A propeller and hub of 
this size weighs ten tons. At the American Marine Iron 
Works it can be made in a solid cast, whereas formerly the 
blades were cast separately. 

The Victory pipe bending machine and Thomas portable 
drag saw, distributed throughout the United States, are made 
in this plant, as well as valveless pumps and other machine 
and foundry work. 

The plant is located in the St. Johns district, at the foot of 
Richmond street. Madison L. Jones is president, A. M. Can¬ 
non, vice-president, Thos. B. Beverly, secretary and Carl L. 
Jones, treasurer. 










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The Arcady Press & Mail Advertising Co. 


1 1 ''HE strides Oregon has taken in 
"*■ advertising her products to the 
world have been augmented by the 
work of The Arcady Press and Mail 
Advertising Company, the pioneer 
direct advertising agency of the Pa¬ 
cific Northwest. 

C. This company plans, designs, 
writes and produces completely 
from idea to mail sack” advertising 
literature which reaches the buyer 
direct, besides printing and publish¬ 
ing a number of periodicals and 
“house organs” for manufacturers. 



JOS. R. GERBER, President 


CL About 40 people are employed in 

the plant, which is located now at 222 Stark street. The busi¬ 
ness was started on a small scale in 1910 by Joseph R. Gerber, 
its president, and in the past six years has experienced remark¬ 
able growth. 

CL Resides producing advertising literature and publications, 
1 he Arcady Press does a general business in printing, multi¬ 
graphing, mimeographing, addressing and mailing lists. 

CL For many Oregon manufacturers The Arcady Press organi¬ 
zation has made two profits grow where only one grew 
before.” 


Theo. Bergmann Shoe Manufacturing Co. 

HF, Theo. Berg- 
mann Shoe Man¬ 
ufacturing Company 
was incorporated 
here in 1914 by 
Theo. Bergmann and 
two associates. 

These three consti¬ 
tuted the entire 
working force. Mr. 

Bergmann worked 
up the business 
gradually from year 
to year until today 
it employs approximated 40 people and has an annual pay¬ 
roll of $60,000. 

The product is sold direct to merchants by the company’s 
salesmen who cover the entire Coast sections of Washington, 
Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana and Nevada and by mail 
to Alaska. From a small beginning the company has grown 
to be the leading logging shoe manufacturers on the Coast and 
their shoe is leading all makes in volume of sale in this section. 

In addition to the logging shoe they manufacture a full 
line of men’s work shoes in all heights, men’s and ladies’ out¬ 
ing shoes, surveyors’, miners’ and kindred lines. 

Recently there was added as a side line a waterproof shoe 
oil, made exclusively for them and put out as the Bergmann 
Waterproof Shoe Oil. The sale of this product has increased 
to such an extent that it is fast becoming an important part 
of the business. 

The factory is located at 621 Thurman street. Theo. Berg¬ 
mann, whose picture is shown, is president and manager of the 
company; Edw. Bergmann is vice president and Chas. Cassell, 
secretary-treasurer. Win. Bergmann and A. J. Grohs are on 
the directorate with these officers. 




S. Ban and Company 

r ARGE shipments have been made to the Orient for many 
^ years by S. Ban and Company. Oregon products, includ¬ 
ing lumber, pipe, tin plate, rails, steel, iron, chemicals, as well 
as automobiles and other products from outside the state, have 
been shipped by the company. In the import lines, the com¬ 
pany has received silk goods, teas, peanuts, napkins, safety 
matches, beans, rice and Japanese products of all kinds. 

A retail store is operated in connection with the business, 



specializing in men’s furnishings, including clothing for log¬ 
gers, shipbuilders and sawmill workers. Branches of the com¬ 
pany are located in Denver, Seattle, Pocatello, Cheyenne and 
Sheridan. 

The growth of S. Ban and Company has been enormous. 
Plans have been outlined for a further extension of the busi¬ 
ness and the capitalization is now being increased to handle 
the business. 


Log Cabin Baking Company 

W HILE the picture of the Log Cabin Baking Company 
gives one some idea of the size of the plant, the complete¬ 
ness of the bakery cannot be appreciated without an actual 
inspection. 

The Log Cabin Baking Company specializes in “American 
Maid,” “Holsum” and “Tip-Top” brands of bread. Distribu¬ 
tion in the city as well as all suburbs is 100 per cent. The 
plant is located at 265 Ivy street, and occupies a large area. 
It is equipped with the most modern machinery produced. 



Cleanliness is the one predominating feature in the production 
of bakery goods. The arrangement of the equipment makes 
it possible to get a large production quickly, and attain the 
highest point of efficiency. 

H. F. Rittman is president and manager of the company. 
The other officers are: J. A. Wright, vice-president and F. A. 
Shoemaker, secretary-treasurer. 


















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The Portland Telegram 


The Star Drilling Machine Company 


TN the industrial development of Oregon, no other institution 

has been a more active factor than The Portland Telegram. 

When Portland seemed to have reached the hight of its pos¬ 
sibilities in industrial development under conditions that then 
existed, The Portland Telegram sent a member of its staff to 
every important port in the entire United States to study con¬ 
ditions, so that the port of Portland could be improved to the 
highest point of efficiency. 

The Telegram’s program on building up Oregon’s indus¬ 
tries is in itself a great enterprise. 

1 hroughout the year the “buy at home” argument is told 
graphically in cartoons. Each week a series of stories is pub¬ 
lished showing what commodities are manufactured locally, 
and how they are made. Windows on the city’s most important 
thoroughfare display goods that are made in Oregon. Personal 
service is offered manufacturers and jobbers in solving the 
merchandising and advertising problem. 

In news service no expense has been spared to give its read¬ 
ers the best. Supplementing the full Associated Press service, 
the 1 elegram has a special leased wire connected with the 
Chicago Tribune, New York Times and London Chronicle with 
a large corps of correspondents in every important European 
city, as well as Washington, D. C. In addition to these 
premier wire services, the Telegram has exclusive contracts in 
this territory for the big features published in America’s fore¬ 
most newspapers, including special stories, cartoons and illus¬ 
trations. 

With the best news service, a constructive editorial policy 
and back of it a policy of “fair to all,” the Portland Telegram 
presents its compliments and asks to become the greatest news¬ 
paper in the west. 


M. L. Kline Company 

HE M. L. KLINE CO., 
wholesalers in plumb¬ 
ing, heating, mill and steam 
supplies, are located at 84- 
86-87-89 Front street. The 
company is owned and con¬ 
trolled by M. I,. Kline, who 
has been engaged in this 
business since 1886, at which 
time he entered the employ 
of Goldsmith & Loewenberg, 
first as entry clerk at a wage 
of $35 per month, and suc¬ 
cessively filling thereafter 
after the positions of stock 
clerk, bookkeeper, cashier, 
salesman and traveling 
salesman. 

After having been employed by the concern for a period of 
eleven years, Mr. Kline entered into a partnership conducted 
under the firm name of Gauld & Kline Co., which engaged in 
this same line of business for nine years, when Mr. Kline sold 
his interest in the company and purchased his present busi¬ 
ness interest from Corbett, Failing & Robertson which has 
been conducted solely under his ownership and management 
since that time in the same building—in all a period of 
fourteen years. 

The M. L. Kline Co. at the present time has in its employ 
a force of sixty men and women and has an annual payroll 
of $85,000.00. The territory which they co'/er is that tributary 
to Portland—all of Oregon, southern Washington and western 
Idaho. Their specialty is Service. 




T HE Star Drilling Machine Company is the largest manu¬ 
facturer of portable well drilling machinery in the world, 
and their products go to every civilized country. Three other 
factories in addition to the large Portland plant, are operated 
to full capacity the year round, furnishing equipment for 



water wells, oil wells, gas wells, prospecting blast holes and 
other uses where well drilling machinery is necessary. 

The company was first incorporated in 1888. J. W. Miller 
built the first Star drilling machine for his own use and it 
proved to be such a success that a company was organized to 
go into the business on a large scale. The company has now a 
capitalization of $2,000,000. The other plants are located at 
Akron, Ohio, Chanute, Kansas, and Long Beach, California. 

W. Id. Kluge is manager of the Portland branch. 


Multnomah Iron Works 

TN the building of the “One Man Harvester,” the Multno- 

mail Iron Works has not only made for itself a name, but 
the demand for the machine has been so great that Oregon 
payrolls have been given a big boost through this one article 
alone. 

The one man harvester built bv the company is the largest 
and lightest machine in the world built for the purpose of cut¬ 
ting and threshing at the same time, and has the largest capa¬ 
city per horse of any machine. Built with steel parts wher¬ 
ever possible, and strongly re-inforced, it will stand up under 
heavy use. 

Aside from the one man harvester, the Multnomah Iron 
Works manufactures pneumatic, gasoline and steam drag 
saws, which have a wide distribution. Other farm implement 
specialties are also built by the company. 

The plant is located at Thirtieth and Nicolai streets. J. S. 
Beall is president; O. B. Preall is vice-president, and H. O. 
Fenner is secretary and manager. 


Dennos Food Company 



T HE manu¬ 
facture of 
Dennos food 
in Portland is 
not only cre¬ 
ating bigger 
payrolls for 
this city, but 
better babies 
for all the 

country, as well. Dennos food is a cereal milk modifier, 
containing the very nourishing elements of the whole wheat 
berry. It breaks up the curd of the cow’s milk, so that the 
weakest stomach can easily digest it. Dennos food fits in 
splendidly in any schedule, whether as a substitute, or as a 
supplement to the natural feeding. 









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Portland Seed Company 


Hey wood Brothers & Wakefield 


and $400,000 in 1920, maintaining its position as the leading 
establishment of its kind in this territory; handling complete 
lines of seeds, plants and nursery stock, poultry and bee sup¬ 
plies, sprays and sprayers; manufacturing fertilizers and rep¬ 
resenting standard lines of dairy equipment. 

The phenomenal rise of this business has been due in a 
large measure to its policy of making every customer feel that 
his interests are well guarded, goods are as represented, orders 
are carefully executed, and last, and not the least important, 
complaints, if any, are given courteous attention, and adjust¬ 
ments of differences promptly and satisfactorily made. 


Haynes-Foster Baking Company 

D IXIE BREAD,” known to the housewife of Portland for 
many years as the best bread to be had, is made at the 
large baking plant of the Haynes-Foster Baking Company, 
aside from the Dixie bread, the company makes a full line of 
bakery goods of all kinds. The bakery is located at 64-66 
East Seventh street, north. H. H. Haynes is president of the 
company, and C. E. Foster, secretary-treasurer. 


chair cane, cane webbing, railway car seats, opera chairs, chil¬ 
dren’s go-carts and carriages, lounges, reed furniture, doll 
carriages, cocoa matting, and school furniture. 

The Portland plant is located at Irving, Ninth and Tenth 
streets, and is equipped with modern machinery of all kinds. 
Over 150 men are on the payroll. W. H. Beharrell is manager 
of the local branch of the company. Other factories are in 
Chicago, and Wakefield, Gardner & Erving, Massachusetts. 


Izard Gas Heating Company 

T HE Izard Gas Heating Company is making the famous 
Izard gas generators, which have attracted almost coun¬ 
try-wide attention during the short period that thev have been 
on the market. Henry Izard, inventor of the generator, is 
president of the company; R. O. Bachman is secretary-treas¬ 
urer; R. M. Jennings, sales manager. The devices are made 
in the Peninsula Brass Foundry at St. Johns, of which Mr. 
Bachman is owner. 


The Fleischmann Company 

N EARLY all bakers use Fleisehmann’s yeast, because it is 
the best. However, the use of yeast is not confined to 
the baking business. 

Through accident it was discovered that the fresh yeast, 
just as it is used for baking bread, is not only a good food, 
but is unexcelled for medicinal purposes. It has been definitely 
established that yeast will cure indigestion and skin diseases. 
Furthermore, investigation has proved that the yeast treat¬ 
ment will add to the weight. 

The yeast cake is made up of millions of tiny plants, which 
only await dampness and warmth to grow and flourish. 
Scientists have discovered that this process cures such stomach 
ailments as indigestion and cures skin diseases. 

The general offices of the coast division are in Seattle, with 
the plant at Sumner, Washington. 


r IX) keep pace with and facilitate the handling of the tre- 
mendous increase of its business, the Portland Seed Com¬ 
pany has increased its capitalization to $400,000. 

Starting as a small partnership business, the first articles of 
incorporation were filed in 1842, with a subscribed capital 
stock of $10,000, $4,000 only of which was paid up—an 
amount barely sufficient to take care of its retail trade at that 
time. 

Notwithstanding constant competition and many adverse 
conditions the company forged ahead, increasing its capital to 
$25,000 in 1900; $50,000 in 1902; $75,000 in 1903; $100,000 
in 1915 ;$150,000 in 1907$250,000 in 1911 ;$300,000 in 191 8 


T HE lines manufactured by Heywood Brothers & Wake¬ 
field in Portland are larger than many of the great Eastern 
furniture manufacturers. 

The company was established in the East in 1826. Though 
the Portland branch was not opened until fifty-eight years 
later, it is one of the old institutions of the city, being estab¬ 
lished in 1884. 

The lines manufactured at the local plant include chairs, 




























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McCargar, Bates and Lively 



c. a. m’carger p. C. bates 


IY 0 ma tter what kind of insurance you may desire, Mc- 
' Cargar, Bates and Lively are not only in a position to 
write the policy, but the concern can give you protection in 
the best companies in existence, together with real service. 

The business of the firm is not only large in its scope, but 
the volume of business transacted by the firm is enormous. The 
firm was established in 1893. 

Back of the firm and active in its management are men who 
have spent a lifetime in the insurance business. C. A. Mc¬ 
Cargar is one of the originators of the company, having been 
in business here since 1893. P. C. Bates joined Mr McCargar 



K. V. LIVELY W. E. PEARSON 


in 1904. In 1907, K. V. Lively was taken into the concern. 
Two years later W. E. Pearson became associated with the 
company. All four men are active in the upbuilding of Port¬ 
land, in social ways, as well as commercial. 

Aside from life, accident, liability, group, health, marine, 
steam boiler, fire, strike, riot and automobile insurance, the 
company furnishes surety bonds. Aetna Life is one of the 
leaders among the companies represented by McCargar, Bates 
and Lively. The company’s offices are located in the Yeon 
building. 


Oregon filled its first (juotci for fighting men with volunteers. 


Sterrett Packing Company 

T)LANS are now under way for the erection of a new pack- 
ing plant for the Sterrett Packing Company, according to 
announcement just made by J. L. Sterrett, head of the com¬ 
pany. 

The new plant is to be located in the North Portland In¬ 
dustrial district, adjoining the Portland Union Stockyards 
Company’s property. An option has been held on the property 
for some time, and Mr. Sterrett has finally decided to locate 
the plant there. 

According to Mr. Sterrett, the cost of the building to be 
occupied by the company will be something in the neighbor¬ 
hood of $400,000, including the cost of special equipment for 
refrigeration purposes. 

Mr. Sterrett is one of the best known cattle and packing 
men in the west. He has been in the business continuously 
for forty years. During the past seven years he has operated 
the present plant of the company at Kenton. 

The Sterrett Packing Company did a business amounting to 
about $1,000,000 last year. A complete plant is in operation, 
and beef, pork and mutton are handled. The products include 
provisions of all kinds, as well as sausages. 

The erection of the new plant is due to a continued increase 
in the company s business. In the new budding, every modern 
device known to the business will be installed, making it one 
of the best packing houses of its size in the country. 

Mr. Sterrett is a man who knows every part of the packing 
business thoroughly, having had experience in raising cattle, 
wholesaling and retailing, as well as his present business. 


The A. H. Averill Company 

'T'HE A. H. Averill Company has been an important factor 
in the development of Oregon as an agricultural state. 
The company carries the complete Russell line of farm imple¬ 
ments and has been established in Portland since 1882. A. H. 
Averill, head of the concern, has personally been in charge 
of the business for 31 years. 

Aside from the farm implement line, the company handles 
sawmill equipment and tractors. Branch distributing houses 



are operated in Spokane, Washington, Great Falls, Montam 
and San Jose, California. 

The Portland house is located at East First and Belmon 
streets. 

Mr. Averill is president of the Pacific States Fire Insuranc 
Company, which has several hundred stockholders in th 
Northwest and has its entire assets invested in Oregon. I 
every move for the development of this country, Mr Averil 
has taken a leading part. 


















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Riverview Dairy Company 

r I A HE Riverview Dairy was the first one in the West that 
successfully pasteurized milk in the bottle, which is ack 
nowledged as the only safe method of pasteurization. Ever 
since its organization the company has held one of the highest 
scores for the quality of its product. 

The principal business is the pasteurization and distribution 
of milk, butter also being manufactured. Last year’s turn¬ 



over amounted to $320,000, with a payroll of $42,000, twenty- 
four people being employed at the present time. 

The Riverview Dairy was organized by E. Hoover and 
Charles Eckelman in 1912 as a co-partnership. 

In 1913 Mr. Hoover retired and his interest was taken over 
by Paul Eckelman. The company was incorporated in 1914, 
with Paul Eckelman as president, Charles Eckelman, treasurer 
and John Stevenson, secretary. 


South Portland Shingle Company 

T HE South Portland Shingle Company is a new Portland 
industry, having been established just about a year ago. 
The company deals in shingles, putting out the “Gold Medal” 
brand. The shingles are sold exclusively at wholesale. The 
company’s mill is located at 130 Macadam road. The follow¬ 
ing are the officers of the company: Charles Templar, presi¬ 
dent; Fred Vance, vice-president; William Thompson, secre¬ 
tary-treasurer. 


Portland Basket and Handle Company 

T HE Portland Basket and Handle Company has built up 
, an enormous business establishment here in the past 12 
years. The lines manufactured include splint and veneer 
baskets of all kinds, fruit and hop picking baskets, bassinets 
and clothes hampers' J. W. Edwards is president of the 
company; E. B. Magee is vice-president and Ira N. Yount is 
secretary-treasurer. The plant is located at 1321 Macadam 
road. 


One of the largest cargoes of lumber ever floated was load¬ 
ed at a Columbia River point just below Portland; 6,200,000 
feet was the amount carried by the S. S. Algoa. 


P. Sharkey and Sons 

T WENTY-FIVE thou¬ 
sand horse collars are 
manufactured each year in 
the plant of P. Sharkey & 

Son. Skilled mechanics 
numbering 25 are employed 
in the plant. 

E. J. Sharkey, manager 
of P. Sharkey & Son, was 
born in Canada, St. Johns, 

N. B., in the year 1880. He 
came to the states in 1865 
and located in Wheeling, W, 

Va., where he was a resident 
for twenty years. 

With his father, Patrick 
Sharkey, in the spring of 
1886 he migrated to Oregon, where they established the busi¬ 
ness of manufacturing horse collars under the name of P. 
Sharkey & Son. This firm is still doing a good business and 
have a wide reputation for the quality of collars they produce. 

The collars manufactured in the Sharkey plant are sold in 
every part of the United States. Shipments are made as far 
east as New York, and a large business is done in the 
Hawaiian Islands, as well as Papeete, Tahiti, where the 
products are particularly popular. 


James, Kerns & Abbott 

N the plant of James, Kerns & AbboT, Portland has the 
largest printing establishment in the entire Northwest. 
James, Kerns & Abbott have been established for twenty years, 
and are specialists in catalogue and railroad work. 

Aside from a large battery of jobbers, the company has nine 
cylinder presses, four monotype machines and three automatic 
folders. The presses have automatic feeder equipment. 

The building occupied by the company is 100x100 in size, 
two stories and basement. E'ghty men are employed by the. 
concern. 

E. H. James, W. W. Kerns and J. D. Abbott, who formerly 
operated separate plants, consolidated, forming the present 
company. The company prints all tariffs for railroads in the 
Northwest. 


Monroe and Crissell 

N the dairy supply business, the name of Monroe and Cris- 
sell has been connected with the Northwest for a great 
many years. The concern sells cream separators, churns, silos 
and supplies of all kinds for the dairy and creamery. The 
concern sells both at wholesale and retail. W. H. Monroe 
and A. A. Crissell are owners of the company. The store is 
located at 91 to 93 Front street, where a large stock is kept 
on hand. 


A. C. Pike Tent and Awning Company 

T HE A. C. Pike Tent and Awning Company has made re¬ 
markable progress since its establishment in Portland. The 
plant is equipped completely with modern machinery. The 
company turns out canvas goods of all kinds, including tents, 
awnings, bags, covers, and cruisers’ sacks. The establishment 
is located at 107 North Third street. A. C. Pike is owner 
of the company. 















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Portland Manufacturing Company White Clover Ice Cream Company 


E XPANSIONS involving the expenditure of over one hun¬ 
dred thousand dollars are being made in the plant of the 
Portland Manufacturing Company. The improvements in¬ 
clude the installation of new machinery and equipment neces¬ 
sary for an increase in the production of panels, as well as 
additional buildings. 

The company’s plant is located at the foot of Richmond 
street, in the Peninsula district, and occupies six acres on the 
water front. More than 100 men are employed at present, and 
the production will run up to $500,000 this year. 

The Portland Manufacturing Company was established in 
1901. In 1910 the plant w r as destroyed by fire, but it was im¬ 
mediately replaced with a more modern and up-to-date plant. 

Products include veneered fir panels, rotary cut veneers of 
spruce, fir and cottonwood, coffee drums, fruit packages and 
excelsior. The products are shipped to all parts of the 
United States. 


Rasmussen and Company 

S ERVICE and quality built up the enormous business of 
Rasmussen and Company. In spite of strong competition, 
J. P. Rasmussen started the business here many years ago. 
The company now has two large factories in addition to a 
retail store. 

Rasmussen paints and varnishes qre sold by thousands of 
dealers in all parts of the Northwest. Aside from these prod¬ 
ucts, sash, doors, glass, oils and lubricants are sold at whole¬ 
sale and retail. 

The paint factory shown here is located at 10th and Irving 



streets. The retail store and offices are located at Second and 
Taylor streets. Mr. Rasmussen is president of the company 
and is still in active charge of the business, though his sons 
are associated with him in the business. 

Rasmussen and Company contribute largely to the annual 
payroll of Portland, aside from making large purchases of 
supplies locally. 


Sevier Commission Company 

A MONO the livestock commission merchants that have done 
much toward making Portland the most important live¬ 
stock market west of the Rockies, none have been more active 
than the Sevier Commission Company. The company’s head¬ 
quarters are in the Livestock Exchange building, at North 
Portland. H. Y. Blackwell is president; O. E. Weed, secre¬ 
tary and C. N. Sevier is manager. 


T HE White Clover Ice Cream Company is a concern that 
has made a rapid growth, keeping apace with the growth 
of the city. The White Clover Ice Cream Co. is a corporation 
of which J. W. Shearer is president and R. E. Cavett is vice- 
president. 

The company was formed in 1918 and purchased the ice 
cream business and equipment formerly owned and operated 
by the T. S. Townsend Creamery Co. 



They manufacture and sell exclusively White Clover ice 
cream and sell to the dealers covering all of Western Oregon, 
a large portion of Eastern Oregon and Southwest Washington. 

The White Clover brand of dairy products is one of the 
oldest brands on the coast, having been on the market for 
more than forty years. 

No branches are maintained by the company. Exclusive 
sales agencies have been established in all of the towns in our 
territory. 


Clay S. Morse, Inc. 

C LAY S. MORSE, Inc., specializes in hoisting, moving, 
storage and heavy hauling. The company does a general 
drayage business. They have large warehouse facilities, and 
act as forwarders, making a specialty of handling pool lots. 
The office and warehouse is located at 418-454 Glisan street. 
Clay S. Morse is head of the company, which has been estab¬ 
lished for fifteen years. 


The Hazelwood Company 

TN every department of the 
A- large plants operated for 
handling the enormous out¬ 
put in dairy and poultry 
products, the Hazelwood 
Company has not only in¬ 
stalled the most modern 
equipment, but experts are 
employed in all departments, 
so that the quality is kept 
up to the highest standard, 
and clean, wholesome prod¬ 
ucts can be handled rapidly. 

E. W. Ellis, one of the best 
informed men known to this 
business, is president and 
manager of the company. 


























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National Tank and Pipe Co. 

TVTATIONAL TANK & PIPE Company’s factory at Ken- 
' ton, occupying 12 acres. F. M. Kirsch is vice-president 
and general manager of the company. The plant lias a $60,- 


J. J. Ross Mill Furnishing Company 

T O the flour mill operators in Oregon and other parts of the 
Northwest, the name of the J. J. Ross Mill Furnishing 
Company has long stood for reliability. The company fur¬ 
nishes supplies of all kinds for flour mills, including flour 
mill machinery as well as mill supplies. The company acts 
as western agent for Nordyke and Marmon Co. J. J. Ross is 
president and treasurer; A. H. Averill is vice-president and 
M. L. Ross, secretary. 


000 payroll, employing 100 men. Tanks, cross-arms and silos 
are manufactured. 


Mt. Hood Soap Company 

r I ''HE Mt. Hood Soap Company manufactures the famous 
-*■ Van Hoeters bleaching soap, as well as White Wonder 
and Lurline Floating soap. Aside from the well known 
brands of laundry soaps, the company also manufactures 
toilet soaps and washing powders. The plant is located at 
Fourth and Glisan streets. P. Feldman is founder of the busi¬ 
ness and president of the company. His son, H. Feldman, 
is now general manager. 

Sullivan Hide and Wool Company 


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RECOGNIZES IN THIS AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE 
THE LOYALTY ENERGY AND EFFICIENCY IN THE PERFORMANCE 
OF THE WAR WORK BY WHICH 

AIDED MATERIALLY IN OBTAINING VICTORY FOR THE ARMS 

of the United States of. America in the war with 
the Imperial German Government and the Imperial 
and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government 


J. C. Bayer Furnace Co. 

J C. BAYER Furnace Co., corner Front and Market Sts., 
• manufacturers of fire doors, metal windows, galvanized 


A STEADY increase in the business of the Sullivan Hide 
and Wool Company is rapidly bringing that concern to 
the front in Northwest business circles. 

This hustling, progressive firm was started in September, 
1919, by George M. Sullivan, who was fourteen years vice- 
president and general manager of the H. F. Norton Co. 

Though a comparatively young concern, it has already made 
a creditable name. 

The company handles hides, pelts, wool, cascara bark, furs, 
tallow, mohair and like commodities. 


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steel sash, roof and general sheet metal products, including 
heating and ventilating systems. 


Chausse-Prudhomme Company 

T HE firm of Chausse-Prudhomme Com¬ 
pany, printers, established in 1908, 
has grown from a small printing plant in 
a 20x60 foot room to' a business requiring 
10,000 square feet of space fully equipped 
with the latest automatic printing machin- 
j ery. Careful attention to the needs of their 
j customers in the production of catalogs, 
booklets, broadsides, folders, office station¬ 
ery and general printing has been the watch¬ 
word in the upbuilding of this business. 
Realizing that to meet the requirements of big business in 
other lines it would be necessary to add special equipment, 
they installed a new model press which will print three colors 
on one side and one color on the reverse side of a sheet at one 
time through the press and at the same time perforate, punch, 
number, score, die cut, emboss and deliver the product finished 
and trimmed to proper size. With this equipment they are 
specializing in three color labels, candy bar wrappers, street 
railway transfers, tickets, etc., and have been running day 
and night shifts since its installation. 

Mr. Chausse, the president of this firm, 
is an ex-newspaper man having commenced 
his apprenticeship in a country office at the 
age of 14 years and when 17 became a 
publisher on his own account. He con¬ 
tinued as editor and publisher for 18 years, 
previous to organizing the firm which now 
bears his name. 

Mr. Prudhomme is a thorough printer 
and is active superintendent of the Chausse- 
Prudhomme Company. 























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Eastmoreland Is Ideal Course 



A PUTTING SCENE AT EASTMORELAND 


r I "'HERE is no outdoor game more fascinating than golf. 

Golf is a healthful sport, giving complete relaxation to 
the mind and exercising every vital muscle of the body. 

In playing golf, the mind is so thoroughly absorbed in the 
interest of the game that business worries are entirely for¬ 
gotten. 

At the Eastmoreland municipal golf links one may get the 
maximum pleasure from a game of golf. The rolling hills, 
shaded occasionally with beautiful trees, and with a large 
natural lake, springs and stream—these are in themselves 
allurring to the weird business man. 

But the game at Eastmoreland is wonderful. No links on 
the Pacific Coast is more ideally laid out. Harry Egan, whose 
name and fame as a golfer of national standing is known to 
every lover of the game, planned the course. 

The Eastmoreland adjoins Eastmoreland tract and the Reed 
College campus. Though it is entirely away from all the com¬ 
mercial life of the city, it is but a few minutes’ ride by street 
car or auto from the center of the city. 


Eastmoreland is a sporty course. The natural hazards are 
entirely absent in other courses. The first nine holes have 
been favored by players who have compared links in every part 
of the country. With the opening of the second nine, com¬ 
prising even more land than the original tract, a 12-aere nat¬ 
ural lake, fed by seven springs, will provide a new barrier in 
in the course. 

The game, which at one time w’as possible only for those of 
sufficient wealth to keep up membership in a costly organiza¬ 
tion, is today possible for a man of the most moderate circum¬ 
stances. I he popularity of the game has been brought about 
by the establishment of municipal golf links in various leading 
cities of America. 

A municipal golf links in Portland was made possible by 
the Ladd Estate Company. In 1916 the Ladd estate, who are 
owners of Eastmoreland, loaned the city a tract of land com¬ 
prising approximately 160 acres, on which the golf links are 
now situated. The links were first opened to the public on 
July 7, 1918, and since that time more than 20,000 people 
have enjoyed the refined and healthful sport at Eastmoreland. 







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Portland Hotel 

PUBLIC institution glories in additional years, and feels 
no regretful pangs at the coming of birthdays: each year 
it becomes a part of the city life. So it was joyfully that the 
Portland Hotel celebrated its thirtieth anniversary on April 4, 
for it was in 1890 that this hotel, known over all the country, 
was formally opened to the public. 

Built on the site of a former school building, the founda¬ 
tion had been laid during a so-called “boom,” and stood there 
in the heart of the city a number of years, an object of curi¬ 
osity to visitors, and a sorry reminder to Portland people. 

Though often discussed, nothing was done toward the com¬ 
pletion of the building, until Mr. William S. Ladd one day 
called together a representative group of citizens, and pointed 
out the folly of allowing the foundation to lie unused. 

As a result, a company was organized with a capital stock 
ot $500,000, of which Mr. Ladd took one-fifth, and the project 
was pushed to a speedy conclusion. 

The hotel, designed along lines of unusual architectural 
beauty, with elegant appointments, very soon attained a repu¬ 
tation throughout the United States for its service and hos¬ 
pitality. 

Many famous men and women have been sheltered under 
the roof of the Portland Hotel. Grave diplomats, presidents 
of the United States, celebrities from foreign countries, cele¬ 
brated, best beloved actors and actresses, all have at various 
times been its guests. 

Many are the tales its register could tell; many have been 
the important matters discussed and decided in meetings held 



there; many the fine banquets in honor of men and women 
whom Portland was proud to entertain; who knows how many 
romances have culminated in its homey atmosphere. The ma¬ 
terial for a hundred thrilling stories is there in the thirty 
years of its life. 

Today the Portland Hotel is as popular as ever, and when 
a well-known man comes to the city, we are very apt to read 
that “he is stopping at the Portland Hotel.” It gets to be a 
habit, and people come back year atfer year, with pleasant 
recollections of the homelike spirit pervading it, its fine cuisine, 
and the delightful surroundings. 

To the residents of Portland, particularly the older ones, 
the Portland Hotel is regarded with genuine affection, for they 
appreciate what it has meant to the social and commercial 
life of the city. The Portland Hotel is unique, as is the Co¬ 
lumbia Highway, and as enduring in the remembrance of those 
who have seen it. 


The only Worsted Mill west of the Ohio river is located in 
Selwood, a suburb of Portland, Oregon. Their product finds 
its way into many states. 



The Mallory 

A High Class Residential Hotel 


Toke Point Oyster Grill 

O YSTERS and fish are a favorite food of many people, but 
anj^body would grow fond of these dishes if they were 
served at the Toke Point Oyster Grill. The Toke Point Oyster 
House is located at 310 Stark street and was established in 
1914. The place serves many original dishes that cannot be 
obtained elsewhere. Steaks, chops and other orders are also 
served just a bit better than elsewhere. H. Schuslerb is 
proprietor. 


E. House Restaurant 

STABLISHED in 1882, and continually under the man¬ 
agement of E. House, the founder of the business, the 
House restaurant has become famous throughout the North¬ 
west. Men who are today leaders in every line of industry 
have been among the first patrons of the place, and can still 
be found there at breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Good 
foods are served at the House restaurant at moderate prices. 
The place is located at 128 Third street. 


Fault Restaurant 

T HE Fault Restaurant, is the newest addition to the many 
good places to eat in Portland. The place was established 
late last year, and a remarkable business has already been 
established. The Fault Restaurant specializes in crawfish, 
though sea foods of all kinds, as well as other dishes are 
served. J. E. Fault is manager of the establishment. It is 
located at 353 Stark street. 


























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Hotel Cornelius 

T O those who have dipped a pen into the ink well at the 
desk of the Cornelius Hotel to register, the hostlery 
is known as “The House of Welcome.” Not only are the 
guests given a welcome upon arrival at the Cornelius, 
but their entire visit at the hotel is made pleasant by 
service. 

The Cornelius Hotel is not the largest in the city, yet 
it has the advantage of being the best located hotel. It 
is closer to the shopping and amusement centers than 
any other hotel, and yet it is a block from any street 
car lines, thus having the advantage of less of the noise 
and bustle of the city. 

The Cornelius Hotel contains 100 rooms, over half of 
which have baths attached. 

W. C. Culbertson is president of the Cornelius Hotel 
Company; Harry E. Fletcher is manager. Mr. Fletcher 
has been in charge of the hotel for many years and is 
one of the best known hotel men on the Pacific Coast. 
Just recently he was given a flattering offer by the op¬ 
erators of a string of tourist hotels, who sought his 
services as manager. He chose to remain at the Cornelius 
Hotel, however, where he will continue to make that 
place the house of welcome. 

Mr. Fletcher was for ten years manager of the Yel¬ 
lowstone Park Association hotels in the famous Yellow¬ 
stone National Park and for three years manager of the 
Metropole Hotel at St. Catlina Islands. He was also 
manager of the famous Arrowhead Hot Springs resort 
in Southern California. 


Swetland’s 

OR thirty years Swetland’s has been the favorite confec¬ 
tionery among a large portion of the city’s residents. The 
business was started in 1890 by “Daddy” Swetland. It is 
one of the finest stores of its kind in the Northwest. 

In addition to the ice cream and candy business, Swetland’s 
has gained popularity for lunches. Dainty dishes are to be 
had at Swetland’s at noon as well as in the evening. Quick 
service is given business men at the counter and tables are 
provided for ladies. The company specializes in after-theatre 
suppers. 

Swetland’s candies are made in the company’s own factory. 
They are of an exclusive kind, and the highest in quality. 
J. E. Hawkins is at the head of the corporation and is person¬ 
ally in charge of the business. 




Bab’s Restaurant 


Dedman Cigar Company 

T^HE Dedman Cigar Company is a pioneer among cigar 
dealers of the city, the company being established here 
fifteen years ago. Though the company’s main business is 
retail, they act as jobbers in a few lines, and are distributors 
of the Juan de Fuca cigar. The company’s store is located at 
111 Broadway. W. H. Dedman is owner of the establishment. 


T) AB S Restaurant, 326 Stark street, of which Frank Mussi, 
-L* formerly of the Palace, San Francisco, is chef and Bob 
Lowe, manager. Famous for steaks and other dishes. The 
log cabin dining room in the basement is a novelty. 


Forty per cent of the water power of the United States is 
in the four Northwest states. Only about five per cent is 
developed. 






























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New Perkins Hotel 

HE New Perkins Hotel, located at Fifth and Washington 
streets, is one of the most popular hostelries in the city. 
The hotel has the advantage of being directly opposite one of 
the largest department stores in the west, and only a block 
distant from another store of the same kind. In addition to 
this fact, the car from the union station stops directly in front 
of the door of the hotel. 

The Perkins hotel has all the advantages of the largest 
hotels, being thoroughly modern throughout, and yet the prices 



are much lower. Rooms can be obtained at $1 and up with 
detached baths, and $1.50 up with private baths.- Still lower 
rates can be obtained for weekly and monthly periods. 

A first class restaurant adjoins the lobby, where excellent 
food can be obtained at moderate prices. L. Q. Swetland, well 
known hotel man, is the president and manager. 


Hotel Benson 

HE HOTEL BENSON is in a class by itself From an 
architectural standpoint, the hotel is the most beautiful 
structure in the city. In service no hotel in the west has more 
to offer. 

The popularity of the Benson Hotel, both at home and 
abroad, is perhaps best indicated by the iact that the leading 
clubs of the city dine and banquet there continuously. 

These clubs constitute men of affairs, and as the result of 
the excellent cuisine and faultless service, the hotel has become 
famous. 

All the dining rooms are conveniently arranged The rooms 
are furnished luxuriously, located in the heart of the city, 
and efficiently managed, there is nothing that could be added 
to make a place more desirable as a home, whether for a single 
night or permanently. 


Imperial Hotel 

r I MdE IMPERIAL, occupying the highest priced piece of 
real estate of any building in the entire city, has been 
headquarters for all classes of guests since the early pioneer 
days. The building is located directly in the center of the 
business district running a full block on Broadway, between 
Washington and Stark streets. 

For visitors, for guests, for delegates, for traveling men, 



for Oregonians, for Portlanders, for all who like hospitality-— 
the Imperial stands for service and courtesy. Leaders in every 
class have found that the Imperial creed is based upon the 
Golden Rule. 

The Imperial Hotel contains 500 rooms, with a large per¬ 
centage of baths, the rates running from $2 upward. Two 
restaurants are operated in connection with the hotel, with 
popular priced table d’hote meals and a la carte service 
continuous. 

The Imperial has the equipment and organization with 
which to give every guest what they want when they want it. 

Phil Metscham, Jr., is manager of the hotel. 


Bush and Lane 

HE name of Bush and Lane Company deals in high grade 
pianos of their own manufacture, which have a wide distri¬ 
bution in the Northwest and other sections of the country. 
Playerpianos are also manufactured bv the company. All the 
leading makes of phonographs are sold. W. Lane is president 
of the company. W. H. Beach is general manager. The fac¬ 
tory is located at Holland, Michigan. 

The Bush and Lane Company has been established for 
eleven years. 


William M. Ladd has been running banks so long that 
banking has now become a real hobby with him, and when he 
feels like working real hard he puts in some licks toward 
making the Portland Y. M. C. A. and the Museum of Art 
the best institutions of the kind in the country. 






































































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Cedar Crest Farm 

ORTLAND’S high 

standing in the health 
statistics of the nation is a 
matter of annual comment. 

Contributing factors in this 
very pleasant matter of 
pride on the part of Port¬ 
landers are many but most 
important is the invigorat¬ 
ing year-in-year-out climate, 
that marks no extremes, but 
is varied enough to avoid 
monotony. It is natural, 
therefore, that medical in¬ 
stitutions of high character 
should seek for their loca¬ 
tion this locality where na¬ 
ture can be counted on at all seasons to to its part in restor¬ 
ing to full health those who have temporarily lost their phy¬ 
sical well-being. 

The success of those institutions -which have through many 
years returned people from all states to better health, has 
brought others. One of the newest, yet one which in a re¬ 
markably short time has assumed national prominence and 
enjoys the patronage of the United States government re¬ 
construction service, is Cedar Crest Farm. Not quite 
three years of age, it is today one of the largest of private 
sanitariums in point of numbers treated, and enters its fourth 
year with a still greater programme of expansion before it. 

Its location is on one of the view-places of Portland, being 
at the western end of Terwilliger Boulevard, the broad park¬ 
way which leads automobile traffic south to the Willamette 
Valley and to the cities west and south. Back of Portland are 
the “Heights,” one of the sightliest residence sections which 


any city in America enjoys. At the southern boundary of the 
city, these hills take on a more gradual slope and on that 
slope is Cedar Crest Farm. 

Cottages and tent houses—for those who desire such accom¬ 
modations—cluster around the main building, a three-story 
structure with wide porches, which serve to care for other 
patients. In this main building are located offices and labora¬ 
tories having to do with the administration of the entire insti¬ 
tution. Other features are “homey” dining rooms, music rooms, 
a library and other spaces not ordinarilv found in medical 
quarters. These conform with the medical director’s idea that 
“the patient sees too much of bottles and white enameled fix¬ 
tures, and except when undergoing actual treatment, should 
be in the ‘homeiest’ and most comfortable environment.” The 
entire space of an annex is given over to diet kitchen, labora¬ 
tory and scientific equipment. 

The cottages are made to fit their surroundings. Being in 
the “grove,” they are rustic and the patient may well imagine 
himself out in the mountains, for St. Helens, Mount Hood, 
Mount Adams and lesser celebrities of the Cascade and Coast 
ranges are but neighbors, so clear and near do they appear 
from this point of vantage. 

In connection with the institution is operated a dairy, hav¬ 
ing both cows and goats. Vegetables and greens come from 
the farm’s own gardens which comprises about 25 acres. 

Cedar Crest Farm treats diseases of the chest only, and all 
treatment is under the direct supervision of Dr. Edward Allen 
Pierce, its medical director and owner, who is responsible for 
the new plant, its location and its splendid mark in Northwest 
medical circles. Dr. Pierce’s work in connection with lung ail¬ 
ments has been accepted as authoritative for many, many 
years. The practical application of his theories is now meet¬ 
ing with unqualified success in this institution, which is noth¬ 
ing more than devotion to an idea which ought to offer much 
to those who have been unfortunate enough to find treatment 
necessary for diseases of the chest. 




National Hospital Association 


^ I MI E National Hospital Association is not 
only an important business in itself, but it 
has been a great factor in the development of 
many other large industries of the Northwest. 

Through the organization of the National 
Hospital Association, the man of meagre in¬ 
come can secure the services of the specialist 
in case of accident or illness, the same as can 
the man of wealth. The National Hospital Asso¬ 
ciation maintains a staff of specialists in medi¬ 
cine and surgery, who have every facility at 
their disposal. 

At the home offices of the association, which 
occupy nearly the entire top floor of the Mohawk 
building at Third and Morrison streets, complete 
laboratories and dispensaries are maintained. 
Here the patients secure the services of the spe¬ 
cialists in the various lines, including dentistry, 
with trained nurses in attendance, and can se¬ 
cure X-Ray and clinical laboratory diagnosis. 

The National Hospital Association has con¬ 
tracted -with many of the leading manufacturing 
plants of Portland and vicinity for service to 


the general welfare of members and their families. 

The officers of the association are: Dr. Samuel C. Slocum, 
president; Dr. C. G. Sabin, vice president; Attornev E. M 
Rands, secretary, and C. C. Bechtold, general manager. 


employees, and at the larger plants first-aid stations are pro¬ 
vided, with trained nurses in attendance. Ambulance service is 
maintained to take care of serious cases. In addition to the 
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The Moore Sanitarium 

HE Moore is an ideal sanitarium and has gained a reputa¬ 
tion not only among those who have found relief in treat¬ 
ment at that institution, but the principles of the treatment 
are recommended by leading physicians. 

Organs and worn out nerves need one thing above all— 
blood. The milk cure, with a patient at rest, is a rapid blood- 
making process. The diet is given in such a way that it pro¬ 



vides the elements necessary to enrich and vitalize the blood. 

The Moore Sanitarium was established in June, 1916. Since 
that time it has grown rapidly, and arrangements are now be¬ 
ing made to secure larger quarters. Patients are constantly 
on the waiting list, and come from all parts of the Northwest. 

Dr. F. E. Moore, head of the sanitarium, was formerly head 
of the American Osteopathic Association, and was for ten 
year’s examiner on the state board of medical examiners. The 
sanitarium is now located at East 28th and Alder streets. 


Frank Nau, Pharmacist 


F OR thirty years the Nau 
Pharmacy has been 
known to the people of 
Portland as an up-to-date 
and reliable place to deal. 
Service is the watchword at 
this institution, and to ac¬ 
complish service to the high¬ 
est possible degree, the store 
is kept open dav and night. 
Frank Nau is owner of the 
store. The Nau Pharmacy 
is located at the corner of 
Sixth and Alder streets. 


Sandy’s 

S ANDY’S, headquarters for kodaks and fountain pens, is 
one of the best advertised stores of its size in all the coun¬ 
try. G. E. Sanderson is owner of the establishment. The 
office and developing rooms are located in the Merchant s Trust 
building. The retail store is located at 329 Washington street. 
A large force is employed in the developing and printing de¬ 
partments. The plant is one of the largest in the west. 


J. P. Finley and Son 

r 1 1 HE firm of J. P. Finley and Son, funeral directors, has 
occupied a notable position in the history of Portland. The 
concern was established in 1876, and was first located at Fifth 
and Morrison streets, where the store of Meier & Frank now 
stands. 

From Fifth and Morrison streets, the concern subsequently 
moved to Third and Jefferson, Third and Madison, and finally 
to Fifth and Montgomery, continued increase in business mak¬ 
ing the changes necessary. 

The present home of the company was designed by J. P. 
Finley, and thoroughljr reflects refinement with completeness 
to the last detail. 

The building is equipped with a dormitory, where part of 
the employees live and are at the service of the public day and 
night. Every detail can be arranged within the establishment, 
it being so equipped to relieve the bereaved ones of every re¬ 
sponsibility. The interior is homelike in every detail and the 
public is always invited to visit the establishment. 

The automobile equipment consists of three hearses, one 



ambulance, two limousines and four touring cars which are at 
the service of the public at all times. They have a large garage 
in back of the establishment. One of the principal features 
is the privacy which is maintained for the family and the care 
of the loved ones the same as would be at their own home. 

The firm is headed by J. P. Finley, who is president of the 
corporation, assisted by Arthur L. Finley, who is general man¬ 
ager. The company has sixteen employees, including four 
funeral directors, a lady embalmer and director, for women 
and children’s cases, aside from the staff of mechanics and 
drivers for the machines, office force, and other assistants and 
attendants. 

The motto of the firm is equal service to all, and no worthy 
family has ever been refused the care of the company. 


Sherman, Clay and Company 

S HERMAN, CLAY and Comjiany has always been known 
as the home of the best pianos. Such well know makes as 
the Steinway, A. B. Chase and other fine instruments, are sold 
by the company. Players, as well as Victors, are also handled 
by the company. The following are officers of the company: 
P. L. Clay, president; F. W. Sherman, vice-president; F. W. 
Stevenson, secretary; R. G. McCarthy, treasurer; J. H. Dun- 
dore, general manager. Sherman, Clay and Company have 
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Winthrop Hammond Company 


The Hazelwood 


HPHE Winthrop Hammond 
Company sells depend¬ 
able merchandise. No matter 
whether it is a suit of 
elothes ; a hat, or any other 
article, if it comes from that 
store, you may depend upon 
it being right up to the 
minute in style, of the high¬ 
est quality in material and 
workmanship, and back of it 
all, Winthrop Hammond 
service. 

Mr. Hammond’s father 
was one of the pioneer cloth¬ 
ing merchants of Massachu¬ 
setts, and Winthrop Ham¬ 
mond was born to this line of commercial activity. 

Coming to Portland in 1910, following a long illness, in 
1916 Mr. Hammond purchased the long-established business 
of Buifum & Pendleton, which has been a Portland insti¬ 
tution since 1884. 

The store, then located opposite the postoffice on Morrison 
street, was moved to its present location at 127 Sixth street, 
thereby doubling the floor space and providing for a greatly 
increased business. 

J. W. Hammond, son of Mr. Winthrop Hammond, has re¬ 
cently joined his father in the business and both father and 
son have an extensive acquaintance. 

The force of salesmen are all men of high abilitv and 
character, the heads of departments having been associated 
with the store for many years. 

Perhaps no store in Portland is more truly representative 
of the city than is this well known establishment. 



Eastern Outfitting Co, 


“THE gray-tiled corner,” at Washington and Tenth is the 
home of one of the largest and most progressive of Port¬ 
land s specialty stores for outer apparel for men and women 
—the Eastern Outfitting Company. 

Joseph Sehmanski, the manager, is widely known in Port¬ 
land, both as a successful business man end a public-spirited 
citizen. 

In 1889 the Eastern Outfitting Company opened at Third 
Taylor, in one small room 10x20 feet. Thev grew so rap- 
idly that in the years that followed successive moves to larger 
quarters were necessary, the last 11 years ago to the present 
location on Washington street. 

The Eastern was the first ready-to-wear shop in Portland to 
extend credit and at no increased cost, a policy which has 
brought them a large patronage, not only in the city but 
throughout the state. Mr. Shemanski believes thorouglily in 
the fundamental honesty of the public. 

Ninety per cent of the people are absolutely honest,” he 
says. If they get behind in their payments there is usually a 
good reason, sickness or other unfortunate circumstances. We 
seldom lose money by giving credit.” 


Practically every important city on the Pacific Coast has 
branch of the Eastern Outfitting Company, the buying or^ai 
zation being in New York City. The Portland house emplo 
about 50 people, who are more like one big, harmonious fami 
than employees. Perhaps one reason is the personal intere 
Mr. Shemanski takes in each one of them, and another, t 
liberal bonus they find in their pay envelope every few montl 


T HE Hazelwood Confectionery and Restaurant was started 
in 1904 bv the present manager, J. H. Joyce and his wife, 
Esther Joyce, with but one girl to assist them. Mrs. Joyce was 
the first cook in the Hazelwood and gave to every dish she 
prepared that home taste that every palate craves. This fact 
more than any other has made the Hazelwood a distinctive 
place. Mr. Joyce not only filled the position of manager, but 
that of porter, cook’s helper, dishwasher, soda dispenser and 
salesman. For a period of six weeks he daily opened the 
store at 6:30 and closed it at 12 midnight and lived three miles 
away. 

In 1909 Gilbert Joyce became associated with his brother 
and ever since assisted in the management and help bear the 



load of responsibility, and make it possible to expand the busi¬ 
ness which was accomplished by opening the Broadway Hazel¬ 
wood and Multnomah Hazelwood in 1916 

The policy of the Hazelwood has always been to have and 
serve the best at the most reasonable prices, amid the most 
attractive and homelike surroundings. 

Now more than three hundred co-workers make up “The 
Hazelwood Family,” all of which appreciate very much the 
patronage of Portland people and visitors to our city. 


Dunning & McEntee 

T^UNNING & McENTEE, funeral directors, are now situ¬ 
ated in their residential parlors on the corner of Twelfth 
and Morrison streets, which is one of the most modern and 
best equipped funeral parlors on the coast. The firm was 
organized by G. ID. Dunning in 1888, who has continued ac¬ 
tively in the business up to the present time. The firm from a 
small beginning has steadily kept pace with the progress of 
the city. The firm for years was located at the corner of 
Broadway and Ankeny streets,. but owing to increase in the 
business it was necessary to secure new quarters at above 
address. 

A. B. Cain has recently become associated with the business. 
M-. Cain is well known in fraternal and business circles, 
haying taken an active part in all matters of a fraternal and 
civic nature. The officers are G. D. Dunning, president; C. S 
Dunning, vice president; A. B. Cain, secretary-treasurer; J. 
i. Dunning, general manager. 


r? * rick 1 ransfrer and Storage Co. 

T)EDLCED rates to all points can be obtained from the C 
i °- Pick Transfer and Storage Co., due to the fact that 
the company does a large business that through cars can be 
secured. The company is owned by C. O. Pick. Aside from 
the shipping and storage business, the company maintains a 
arge fleet of horse and auto vans. They specialize in house¬ 
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Leighton’s Dairy Lunch 


R. M. Wade & Co. 


More than $400,000 worth of goods is purchased by the 
concern annually, and the payroll is $125,000. 


F ahey-Brockman 

IGHT years ago T. P. Fahey and R. E. Brockman opened 
their first store in the Arcade building in Seattle, a store 
with a new idea, under the firm name of Fahey-Brockman. 
Constant and consistent advertising backed by clean merchan¬ 
dising methods has made this name combination as familiar 
to the people of the Northwest as “Damon and Pythias.” 
The first store was very small, but the idea, that of selling 
men’s clothes for $10 less than the usual prices by leasing a 
rent-saving upstairs location and and curtailing other over¬ 
head expenses, has been proved by the success of the firm to 
be a mighty big idea. 

About four years ago Fahey-Brockman opened their Port¬ 
land store, occupying the entire second floor of the Raleigh 
building on the corner of Sixth and Washington streets. Mr. 
E. B. Carrington was selected to manage the new branch. The 
same Fahey-Brockman idea—to sell better clothes for less 
money by eliminating fancy store fixtures and kindred ex¬ 
penses, and putting the money thus saved into the value of the 
clothes instead of adding their cost to the garment prices, 
coupled with conscientious service to all customers—has made 
this store one of the largest clothing depots in the state of 
Oregon. 


The Wade saw played a mighty important part in getting 
out the spruce which went into the airplanes during the world 
war, and was most frequently specified by the war department 
as standard. 

“It does the work of ten strong men,” is one of the claims 
made for the Wade, and its adoption throughout the forests 
of the Northwest has practically done away with the old hand 
sawing. 

Officers of R. M. Wade & Co. are: Edward Newbegin, 
president; S. E. Newbegin, vice-president; R. L. Wade, treas¬ 
urer; W. C. La Malle, general manager; J. F. Gorman, man¬ 
ager drag saw division. 


Knight Shoe Company 

HPHE Knight Shoe Company is a leader in the retail shoe 
business of the Northwest. The company was established 
22 years ago. 

For ladies, the Knight Shoe Company carries the high grade 
John S. Gray and Laird Shober lines. For men. the well 
known Stacey Adams and Boyden shoes are carried. 

The children’s department of the Knight Shoe Company is 
a special feature. This department is alone much larger than 
the average retail shoe store. The largest stock in the North¬ 
west is carried in this department. 

A modern repair factory has been installed in the basement, 
where several expert workmen make over old shoes. It is 
equipped with modern machinery. 

W. A. Knight is president; W. M. Knight is vice president, 
and T. H. Craig is secretary-treasurer of the company. The 
Knight shoe store is located on Morrison, near Broadway. 




M ore than 1,500,- 

000 persons were 
served in the three 
Leighton Dairy Lunch 
places during the past 
year. 


One of the famous 
lunch rooms is located 
at Park and Alder 
streets, in the Cor¬ 
nelius Hotel, and the 
other tow at Broad¬ 
way and Washington 
streets. 


Leighton’s Dairy 
Lunch is known as 
“The Coffee Cup,” the 
original establishment 
gaining fame immedi¬ 
ately for its excellent 
grade of coffee. The 
Leighton Dairy Lunches are the most talked of and most 
thought of eating houses in file city. The motto is: “The 
Best for Less.” 



S INCE 1865” R. M. Wade 
and Company have been 
selling high grade farm ma¬ 
chinery in the Pacific North¬ 
west, and have established a 
high reputation and strong 
confidence among the farmers 
of the Notthwest states. 

Four years ago the company 
perfected and put on the mar¬ 
ket the Wade Portable Gaso¬ 
line Drag Saw, which is now 
probably the best known and 
most used power drag saw on 
the market. It is sold in every 
part of North America where 
there is wood for it to cut, and 
demands for its services have brought orders from Australia, 
the South Sea Islands, Africa, South America, Europe 
and Asia. 


Powers and Estes, Druggists 

T HE Powers and Estes Drug Store, located on the ground 
floor of the Oregonian building, at 129 Sixth street, spe¬ 
cializes in prescriptions. The doors of the store never close, 
this being in line with the company’s policy of rendering the 
patrons the best possible service. Prescription experts are 
kept on duty day and night. E. L. Estes is president of the 
company, and is personally in charge of the store. 


Defiance Tea and Coffee Company 

HE Defiance Tea and Coffee Company sells tea and coffee 
at wholesale. A complete plant is operated by the com¬ 
pany, for roasting coffee, so that it can be delivered to the 
trade while still fresh. In addition to the tea and coffee busi¬ 
ness, the Defiance Tea and Coffee Company handles a full 
line of spices of the highest grade. The plant is located at 63 
Front street. L. S. Elliott is president and manager of the 
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Routledge Seed & Floral Company 

T HE Routledge Seed & Floral Company, started and organ¬ 
ized by Ralph R. Routledge, was incorporated in 1909 
and from a small start they are now recognized as the leaders 
in their special line. With up-to-date equipment and a working 
force of over fifty employees, this company covers in a retail 
way the entire Northwest. 


RALPH R„ President-Gen’l Mgr. J. IRA, Secretary-Treasurer 


C. H. “DUKE" Mgr. Retail Store GEORGE L„ Mgr. Poultry Pet 

Stock Dept. 

They are growers, importers and dealers in garden, farm 
and flower seeds, poultry and garden supplies, fertilizers, 
sprays and spray jDumps, birds, pet stock and pet stock sup¬ 
plies of all kinds. 

Their motto: “Quality first, then price as low as possible, 
plus efficient service.” Their rapidly growing business proves 
that they are “making good.” 


Protzman Shoe Company 

T HE well known line of Clapp shoes, the highest grade 
shoes made, are sold at the store of the Protzman Shoe 
Company, which is located at the corner of Park and Alder 
streets. The company is incorporated in the east and the store 
is better known as the Edwin Clapp Shoe Store. The busi¬ 
ness of the firm is confined entirely to retail. J. R. Straight 
is president and manager of the company; R. L. Summers is 
vice-president and H. R. Dunkroater, secretary-treasurer. 


Johnson and Anderson 

OHNSON & ANDERSON, tailors, are better known to 
members of the Portland Press Club than any other con¬ 
cern in that business, not only because their establishment ad¬ 
joins the headquarters of the club, on the second floor of the 
Elks building, but because their tailoring is better. Elof 
Johnson and J. E. Anderson are the two men who comprise 
the firm. They are successors to John B. Coffey. 


Edlefsen Fuel Company 

T HREE yards are maintained by the 
Edlefsen Fuel Company. The or¬ 
ganization furnishes a large share of 
the fuel used in the homes of Portland 
people, as well as factories and ships. 

For ship use, the Edlefsen Fuel Company furnishes the 
highest quality Utah coal. Bunkers at the St. Johns terminal 
make loading directly into ships an easy operation. 

Sunnyside and Standard coals from Utah mines are the 
most popular for use in homes. Rock Springs coal from Wyo¬ 
ming and Sootless coal from Washington, are also furnished 
by the company for use in homes. 

P. H. Edlefsen is president of the company; A. H. Edlef¬ 
sen is vice president and manager; J. N. Edlefsen is secretary 
and treasurer; W. R. Neeley is assistant secretary. 

The company’s offices are located on the ground floor of 
tile Oregon building. 


Emerson Hardwood Company 

T HE Emerson Hardwood 
Company manufactures 
all kinds of hardwood and 
hemlock lumber and adds to 
the local payrolls consider¬ 
ably by employing more 
than 100 men. 

In addition to the manu¬ 
facturing business, the com¬ 
pany deals in veneers and 
hardwood panels. 

The company was estab¬ 
lished in 1907. C. B. Stet¬ 
son, whose portrait appears 
here, is secretary-treasurer 
of the company. Roger 
Sands of Seattle, is presi¬ 
dent of the corporation. 



A brand that stands for quality, service and right prices. A 
new $50,000 mill now being erected, shows what has been done 
to carry out this slogan. 


Oregon is one of the greatest seed producing states. Vege¬ 
table and flower seeds raised here are recognized as of superior 
quality. 





















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Professional, Financial and 
Business Men of Oregon 



MAX H. HOUSER 

One of Portland’s Industrial Leaders 


Explanatory 



HIS collection of portraits of men who 
are among the leading exponents in 
commerce, manufacture, art,, science, 
literature, finance and religion of Ore- 
. _, gon, was designed primarily as a ref¬ 

erence volume for the use of the press, but will find 
its way into banks, counting rooms, homes of its 
subscribers and into the libraries of many interested 
in the history of the Pacific Coast. The publica¬ 
tion is not eulogistic, but merely matter of f act, the 
data being in condensed form, dealing only with 
the prinicpal events of each life, thus differing from 


most biographical works dealing with contempor¬ 
aneous men. To the student of physiognomy this 
book is invaluable, and even a cursory examination 
or a comparison of features, with the works of their 
possessors, cannot fail to impart to the veriest tyro 
a valuable knowledge of human nature and the art 
of judging character from the face. Herein we will 
find the likeness of old friends and acquaintances, 
many of whom, perchance, have departed from 
earth, making their pictured memory doubly dear 
—a collection which could not be secured otherwise. 






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General Wood Is Against Militarism 

By Dow V. Walker. 


T)OLITICIANS who have pigeon-holed Leonard Wood as a 
•*- man with a single-track mind, dedicated to militarism, 
must revise their filing cabinet notations after hearing his dis¬ 
cussion of the issues coming before the people in the coming 
presidential campaign. 

Not that the general is not superbly a soldier, but his char¬ 
acter cannot be played with one finger wholly upon the Hind- 
enburg theme. He will convince any audience of the sweep of 
his mind in a very few minutes, and that he is ready to deal 



with the numerous complex issues now confronting America 
will be more or less the average opinion of his hearers. 

“We don t want to develop militarism in this country,” said 
General Wood to me at the very outset of my conversation 
with him last fall in Chicago. “Ours are a people who have 
always been averse to war for war’s sake, and the boys who 
returned from over there have deepened this feeling mightily. 
Like most soldiers who have seen much of war, they hate it. 

“Our people do want, however, I believe, a universal train¬ 
ing for national service, a training that -will put practically 
out of the question an unprovoked attack upon our peace. 

“The great outstanding issue for us today in America is the 
issue of law and order. This is the issue we have got to meet 
and to master. We must see clearly that if we give hostages 
at all to anarchy, then automatically stops all our progress and 
all our business of life. A nation, to be an effective force 
must needs have stability just as a human being must have it; 


and national stability can be had only through respect for its 
laws and the maintenance of order. 

“When we talk of respect for law and order, loose-thinking 
radicals infer that we are in reality playing the game of 
capital. That is not so. Wealth, truly seen, is the servant of 
the people, not their master. Therefore it should be so em- 
employed for the general betterment of all. This can be done 
and will prove that wealth, properly utilized by a nation, be¬ 
comes the direct agent of national prosperity, shared by all. 

“To gain this end, we should gladly encourage legitimate 
business, but restrain just as forcefully business that is harm¬ 
ful and dangerous. Let us not lose sight of the fact that with¬ 
out good business in full flower we cannot have prosperous, or 
contented labor conditions. The real remedy for the high cost 
of living is to be found in increased production and increased 
efficiency. This is essential to establish proper domestic con¬ 
ditions and to meet the competition soon to come for overseas 
trade. 

“Real Americans realize today our watchword is ‘steady,’ 
and that this is not the time for new adventures, but indeed, 
the time to hold on to the principles and policies that made us 
what we are today—that our work is to build more conscious¬ 
ly than ever a spirit of intense nationalism as contrasted witli 
a loose-fibered internationalism. 

“Tf we are going to be a force for good in the world—and 
we are going to—it will be because we are a strong, well-bal¬ 
anced people with a strong national spirit and with the right 
kind of national conscience. We want to help all the world, 
but to do that we have got to be Americans first.” 

As General Wood talked, touching on the problems of labor 
and capital, of immigration, of Americanization, of taxation, 
of education, amplifying each issue and diagnosing it, it came 
into high relief that the passion of this soldier’s mind is not 
predatory, but constructive. That this side of General Wood 
is practically his whole nature, is going to surprise and dazzle 
Americans if he becomes the Republican nominee for president. 

It has probably been developed by the kind of army work he 
has always been called upon to do. Originally trained to be a 
doctor, he got into the army as a physician, but was shifted to 
the line in 1898. After the Cuban war, he was placed in 
charge of the job of building up out of that medieval nation a 
modern state, modernizing 2,000,000 people in three years. 
This gave him a broad training. He accomplished the gigantic 
task with an expeditiousness and precision that brought him 
national fame, and from that time on he has had one con¬ 
structive job after another, ending with his embittered work 
in creating here at home armies for the crushing of the Hun. 


O. Laurgaard 

PENDING a life-time in the study and practice of engin¬ 
eering, has made O. Laurgaard not only a success in his 
chosen profession, but has won him the respect and confidence 
of not only the fellow members of the profession, but also of 
the community at large. Mr. Laurgaard was born in Norway 
on February 21, 1880. He graduated from the University of 
Wisconsin in 1903. He has been city engineer of Portland 
since July 1, 1917. 

Food products—for man and beast—furnished for the war 
by Oregon were of a quality and quantity that amazed the 
War Department officials. 










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Who Poindexter Is 


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Born: Memphis Tennessee. Age: 52. Education: f 
1 Graduate Fancy Hill Academy, Rockbridge County, Va., 1 
| and Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. I 
| Took B. L. degree at Washington and Lee in 1891. 

Moved to state of Washington in November following | 
| June of graduation, locating in Walla Walla and begin- 1 
| ning the practice of law. 

In November, 1892, one year later, he was elected | 
| prosecuting attorney of Walla Walla county, being 24 | 

| years old at the time. | 

In 1897 he moved to Spokane, where he became assist- | 
| ant prosecuting attorney for Spokane county, serving | 
| with distinction until his election as judge of the Superior | 
| Court in November, 1904. | 

Remained on the bench for four years, resigning r | 
| September, 1908, upon his nomination for Congress as § 
| a Progressive Republican to which he was subsequently | 
I elected by an overwhelming majority. 1 

| In 1910, he was nominated for the senate and the 1 
| following winter he was elected by the legislature by an | 
| almost unanimous vote. 1 

| Re-elected to the senate in 1916. Present term expires | 
| in 1922. | 

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O REGONIANS should be keenly interested in Senator 
Poindexter’s campaign for the presidency on the Repub¬ 
lican ticket. The industrial, commercial, and agricultural in¬ 
terests, and future developments of Oregon and Washington 
are one and the same. The business of Grays Harbor and 
Southwestern Washington, as far north as Chehalis and Cen- 
tralia comes almost exclusively across the Columbia to Port¬ 
land, while a major portion of all the business of Southern 
Washington and Southwestern Washington, around Walla 
Wialla and the famous Palouse country flows naturally down 
the Columbia to Portland. The interests of the two states 
being so closely allied, it is but natural that the business men 
of Portland and other portions of Oregon should be interested 
in the presidential campaign of Washington’s senator. 

Business men further realize and appreciate the great value 
of promoting the candidacy of a man from the Northwest for 
the high office of president of the United States. 

Senator Poindexter’s prominence before the American public 
today, his record of past achievements, his intimate knowledge 
of the functions of the various departments of government 
during twelve years of experience in the lower and upper 
houses of Congress, and his stand on the vital issues of the 
moment show that the Northwest can produce, and is produc¬ 
ing men equal to the best in the world. 

Oregonians, loyal to the best there is in the west, believe 
firmly in and are now taking steps to advance the idea that it 
will be of tremendous advantage to the whole Northwest to 
send a delegation from the northwestern states to the Repub¬ 
lican convention at Chicago committed to Senator Poindexter 
for president. 

Senator Poindexter through long years of service has occu¬ 
pied a position of great prominence in the senate. He is 
chairman of the committee on mines and mining and a very in¬ 
fluential member of the postoffice and post roads committee of 
the senate. 

He has advocated legislation of material benefit to the 
northwestern country, among which measures are the fol 
lowing: 

Government control, not ownership of railways and water 
power utilities. 


The protection of coastwise shipping. 

The rigid enforcement of the “long and short haul” bill. 

The prevention of rate discrimination by railways and free 
passage through the Panama canal for American shipping. 

He has always advocated a large navy, and was one of the 
most active workers for national preparedness. 

He generously supported the war policy of the Democratic 
administration. 



He is now urging the rapid reduction and repeal of ab¬ 
normal war excise taxes, and the raising of the necessary 
revenue, to as large an extent as possible, by tariff on imports. 

His plaform for the coming campaign may be summarized in 
two planks: 

Industrial independence, and national independence. 

He stands squarely for the Open Shop and against the 
League of Nations. He says: “The closed shop means closed 
opportunity. It means personal and industrial servitude, both 
for labor and capital, and for the public. 

The right to work and the right to own property are among 
the inalienable rights of men and are so designated in all of 
the great charters of the race. No government can endure 
which does not protect these rights. 

Men have a right to quit work singly or collectively, but 
they have not the right to conspire to strangle the people. 
Economic independence can only exist when a men is free to 
work or quit work whether he belongs to a union or not.” 

He was the first senator to point out the seriousness of the 



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industrial situation in the United States, which he did in his 
“Mooney” speech on April 22, 1918, and he is now the only 
candidate of the Republican party who is making it an issue. 
And he will force the issue in the campaign. 

Senator Poindexter was the first senator, or other person of 
prominence to oppose the League of Nations and to point out 
its menace in his speech of November 5, 1918, and he pio¬ 
neered opposition to it on his trip to the Pacific Coast in 
April, 1919. 

It was the senator’s point of order in the senate when the 
treaty was defeated in December which prevented the raising 
of the entire question at that time, and he abandoned his cam¬ 
paign in South Dakota to return to the capital at the earnest 
pleading of Senators Knox, McKinley, Brandegee, Borah, and 
others, to assist in bringing about the result accomplished. 
Therefore, all the people in Oregon who are opposed to the 
league ought to rally behind the senator on this proposition. 

Men are saying today that America needs a business man 
for president. What they mean is that America needs a man 
for president who understands the business of government. 
Today the president and legislative branches of our govern¬ 
ment are at loggerheads; government is no longer functioning. 
Senator Poindexter’s twelve year’s of experience in the upper 
and lower houses of Congress certainly make him qualified to 
understand and appreciate the functions, prerogatives, and 
limitations of the various branches of government. 

Senator Poindexter is a constructive thinker and statesman. 

America, in this crisis of her history, as in every great crisis 
of the past, needs the sincerity, straightforwardness and love 
of justice that Senator Poindexter is so magnificently cham- 
pioning before the American people today. 


T. M. Hurlburt 



S HERIFF T. M. HURL¬ 
BURT has decided to be¬ 
come a candidate for re-elec- 
. tion, following a great deal of 
urging upon the part of many 
friends and business organiza¬ 
tions. 

His record will be the plat¬ 
form on which Sheriff Hurl¬ 
burt will run. Among other 
things, he will state in his 
platform that lie will construe 
his oath of office to mean complete and effective enforcement 
of law, with no interest to serve except the public interest. 
He will point to the re-organization of the tax collecting de¬ 
partment and to the reforms he has made in the feeding of 
public prisoners. 

Sheriff Hurlburt was born at Albia, Iowa, March 28. 1860, 
and came to Portland in August, 1870. He was a civil engi¬ 
neer by vocation before his election as sheriff. Few people are 
aware of the fact that over 30 years ago he made the first 
official reconnoisance of Bull Run, the source of Portland’s 
water supply. 

During the world war Sheriff Hurlburt was actively identi¬ 
fied with all the patriotic movements. He was the head of the 
Multnomah guard, which rendered effective service in preserv¬ 
ing order and protecting property. 


Oregon has the largest knitting factory on the Coast— 
Oregon-grown wool manufactured in heart of wool district 
opens the world as a market. 


John 

G OOD business meth¬ 
ods and the policy of 
giving the public the very 
best of service have been 
the leading factors in the 
success of John M. Mann 
as Commissioner of Pub¬ 
lic Utilities, 

Born in Corning, N. 

Y., in 1872, Mr. Mann 
came west in early youth 
to carve out his career in 
the Northwest. For thir¬ 
teen years he worked in 
the best printing plants 
in Portland, then started 
the Ivy Press, a high- 
class printing establish¬ 
ment now operated by his 
son. 

As head of the Water 
Bureau, Mr. Mann’s work has been particularly creditable. 
Even in the face of advancing prices for material and labor, 
the Water Bureau, since 1917, has been operated solely upon 
its revenues, except for the issuance of $100,000 in bonds. 
During this same period the Water Bureau purchased $75,000 
in Liberty Bonds. Many improvements have been made at Bull 
Run Lake, the souce of Portland’s water supply, and more are 
under way. It is predicted that within a short time Portland 
will have a water system unexcelled by any in the country. 

Before being elected commissioner, Mr. Mann served Mult¬ 
nomah county in the legislature. He is a member of the Ma¬ 
sonic Lodge, Shriners, Granger, Woodman of the World, Mod¬ 
ern Woodmen, Macabees, Artisans, K. of P., Knights and 
Ladies of Security, D h O. K. K. and Royal Arcanum. 

The two words, “live wire,” constitute an appellation which 
fittingly sums up the recognized standing of John M. Mann as 
Commissioner for the city of Portland. 


M. Mann 



Walter P. LaRoche 

CAVANAHH, Ga., was the birthplace of Portland’s re~ 
^ nowned city attorney. He served two terms in the Georgia 
state legislature, and was fast making a name for himself in 
the south, when he decided upon seeking a still larger field for 
his activities in the Northwest. He came direct to Portland, 
bringing a wife and eight children. 

Mr. LaRoche is a Republican, and of the actively progres¬ 
sive sort. During the world war, he took part in many drives, 
making many speeches not only locally, but throughout the 
state. He is a Mason, and a member of all the local civic clubs 
and organizations. 

As attorney for the city of Portland, Walter LaRoche has 
made a brilliant and enviable record. He has served since 
July, 1913. 


O. P. Hoff 

/V P. HOFF was born in Norway, and came to America 
when 17 years of age. He has resided in Oregon for 
the last forty years. 

For many years he was employed by the Southern Pacific 
Company, and his first experience in public office began when 
he was selected for the office of labor commissioner in 1903, 
which office he held through a succession of elections up to and 
including 1918, at which time he was elected state treasurer. 









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Robert N. Stanfield 



T HE times require the election of men who have firm con¬ 
victions, and who are not afraid to express them,’ said 
Robt. Nelson Stanfield in discussing his candidacy and declara¬ 
tion of principles. “Every candidate for office should be de¬ 
feated who does not clearly and unequivocally stand for the 
preservation of American ideals, and of American constitu¬ 
tional government, for the maintenance of law and order, and 
for the protection of our free institutions from the insidious 
revolutionary propaganda that seeks to destroy them. 

“It is time to get back to first principles and to pledge 
allegiance anew to the traditions and ideals that have placed 
the United States in the vanguard of the nations. My attitude 
on public questions has been determined by reference to that 
standard and will therefore be readily understood. 

“In the first place I believe that all aliens who are caught 
stirring up strife against the government should be promptly 
deported. Foreigners who come to the United States to make 
their wav in the world should be required either to become 
American citizens or to return whence they came. Immigra¬ 
tion laws should be so amended as to bar the entrance of Bol¬ 
shevists and other undesirables. 

“Second only in importance to the menace to American insti¬ 
tutions is the problem of the relation of labor to capital. In 
my opinion capital and labor are entitled to equality of treat¬ 
ment and it is error to array them as class against class. 

“The peace treaty should be ratified at the earliest possible 
date, together with such reservations in the league of nations 
covenant as will insure due recognition of, and protection to 
the rights of the United States. 

“I trust the woman suffrage amendment will be ratified by 
thirty-six states, as it would enable 16,000,000 women to vote 
for president at the coining November election. 

“A program of Americanization should be devised and vigor¬ 
ously carried out by the federal government in co-operation 
with the several states. 

“The present direct taxes upon industry and consumption 
should be reduced, and to make up the difference increased 
duties should be levied upon imports equal in amount to the 
difference in the cost of production. Preferably, the indebted¬ 
ness incurred as a result of the war should be distributed over 
a long period of years, thus lessening the burden of taxation 


on our farmers, manufacturers and other income-producing 
classes of our people. 

“An adequate American merchant marine should be main¬ 
tained with government aid, but privately owned and operated. 

“The federal and state governments should unite upon a 
program of road construction. 

“Careful consideration must be given to the various features 



of the national educational program now pending before 
congress. 

“Oregon is vitally interested in securing federal aid in the 
reclamation of her arid lands, as well as in the development 
of the state’s vast areas of cut-over lands. The state also re¬ 
quires federal aid for highway construction. 

“An energetic policy looking toward the improvement of 
Oregon’s rivers and harbors should be adopted. 

“Measures should be adopted which will prevent a repetition 
of the car shortage that has proven such a hardship to the 


















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lumber industry of the Pacific Northwest. The discrimination 
against Western lumbermen which has been so manifest during 
the present administration should be terminated, and equitable 
treatment accorded lumbermen in all sections of the country in 
respect to wage scales, working hours and other conditions 
affecting the industry. 

“American shipbuilding yards that are properly equipped 
should be continued in operation on private account, both as 
to yards and the vessels they construct. 

Mr. Stanfield is a firm believer in the future of Portland. 
He established his residence in this city in the first place in 
order better to further its development. He is confident that 
Portland will become a great port and manufacturing center. 
As one of the leading woolgrowers of the United States, it is 
his judgment that Portland is ideally adapted for the creation 
of the principal wool depot of the West. 

The nation must redeem its promises to the young Ameri¬ 
cans who went to war at the call of their country by enacting 
legislation that will properly care for their interests. 

Mr. Stanfield was born July 9, 1877, at Umatilla, Oregon, 
and was one of a family of eight children. His afther, Robert 
Nelson Stanfield Sr., a native of Illinois ane one of the orig¬ 
inal ’49ers, drove an ox team across the plains, arriving at 
McMinville, Oregon, when 17 years old. 

M. Stanfield first entered politics in 1913 when he was 
elected to represent Umatilla county in the lower branch of 
the legislature. He was re-elected in 1915-17, serving as 
speaker of the last named session. He is a member of several 
state boards and commissions, among them being the Oregon 
land settlement commission to which he was reappointed the 
first of the year. 


L. M. Lepper 

M. LEPPER, of the law firm of Hall & Lepper, is one 
* of Portland’s most indefatigable workers for the civic, 
commercial and moral improvement of the city. His activities, 
conducted mainly through the splended organization known 
as the East Side Business Men’s Club, but by no means con¬ 
fined to that body, have had the active support of a large num¬ 
ber of our citizens, who have been glad to enroll themselves 
under Mr. Lepper’s leadership. In a great part to Mr. Lep- 
per’s labors we are indebted for the East Side libraries, Mu¬ 
nicipal Dock No. 2, Laurelhurst playgrounds, high schools, 
and other notable civic improvements on the East Side. 

Mr. Lepper was born on a farm in Indiana; graduated 
from high school at the age of 17- Later he studied engineer¬ 
ing and law, graduating from the University of Michigan at 
Ann Arbor. He is a member of a score of fraternal and social 
organizations. 


Judge George Tazwell 

UDGE GEORGE TAZWELL of the circuit court is one 
of the best known jurists in the Northwest, having been 
active in Portland law circles since 1889. Judge Tazwell re¬ 
ceived his education in England, coming to America upon 
graduation from law school. He was admitted to the bar in 
1894 and began the practice of law at once. In 1910 he was 
appointed municipal judge, and when the office was abolished 
through the adoption of the new city charter he resumed his 
practice. In 1916 Judge Tazwell was elected to the office of 
circuit court judge. 


Drag Saws—made in Oregon—are advertised Nationally 
and are sold in every state in the Union and in 12 foreign 
countries. 


James H. Raley 

T HE development of the 
West is typified in the 
career of J. H. Raley of Pen¬ 
dleton, one of the best known 
attorneys in Eastern Oregon. 
He was born in Nebraska 
City, Nebraska, January 
20, 1855, his parents being 
Jonathan and Rachel Birch- 
field Raley. The family 
crossed the plains with an 
ox team in 1862 In 1864 
they settled on the site of 
the present city of Pendle¬ 
ton. The son rode the ran¬ 
ges of Umatilla and Grant 
Counties as a cowboy for 
ten years. 

After attending the 
schools of Umatilla County, 
Mr. Raley took a course at 
the University of Oregon, 
and later began studying 
law under John J. Balleray at Pendleton. In 1895 he was 
admitted to the bar, and has been in active practice since. 

While known all over the state as a lawyer, his activities 
have not been confined to the law. For three years he was 
manager of the Pendleton Hotel. For the same length of 
time he was a partner of E. J. Somerville in the drug busi¬ 
ness. For five years he was cashier of the Pendleton Sav¬ 
ings Bank, and for four years was county surveyor. Re¬ 
peatedly he has been councilman and also mayor of his city. 
In the state senate he represented Umatilla and Union Coun¬ 
ties for eight years. 

During the administration of Sylvester Pennoyer as gover¬ 
nor Mr. Raley was on his staff as lieutenant-colonel. He 
is the author of Raley’s Irrigation Laws, the result of spec¬ 
ial study. He is one of the large stockholders in the Ameri¬ 
can National Bank of Pendleton. 

In politics Mr. Raley is a Democrat. He was a candidate 
on that ticket for Congress and also for Attorney-General. 

He is a thirty-second degree Mason, and has three daughters 
and one son, J. R. Raley, who is his partner in the legal firm 
of Raley and Raley, Pendleton. 


Richard E. Clanton 

UGH of the credit for building up the present Oregon 
hatchery system, which is second to none in the world, is 
due Ricard E. Clanton, master fish warden, who is in active 
charge of the hatchery work. It was under Mr. Clanton’s 
administration that tile system of feeding ponds, through 
which such remarkable results have been attained, was insti¬ 
tuted. It is now being generally adopted elsewhere. 

Mr. Clanton has been in the fish department since 1908, 
when he was appointed deputy of District No. 2. In 1910, 
Acting Governor Bowerman made him master fish warden. Mr. 
Clanton was born in Clinton, Tennessee, near Knoxville, May 
11, 1873. He has been in Oregon and Washington for 32 
years, and is thoroughly conversant with the needs of the 
salmon industry and the latest methods of hatchery propa¬ 
gation. 


An Oregon Life Insurance C ompany has written more in¬ 
surance in a year than any other Company doing business in 
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B. F. Jones 

T HE life of B. F. Jones is characterized by service—service 
to his family, service to his employer and service to the 
public. 

H e was born on a homestead near Lawrence, Kansas, in 
1859. His father died when he was eight years old, and he 
came to Oregon with his widowed mother in 1870 to settle on 
a homestead in the Yakima Bay country, on the land now oc¬ 
cupied by the town of Toledo. 

Two years after arriving here his mother died, and he 
worked on the farm until he was eighteen, attending public 
schools and O. A. C. during the winter months. Then he 
worked in logging camps and on steamboats until 1883, when 
he received a captain’s license and followed steamboating for 
ten years. 

In 1893 Mr. Jones was chosen county clerk of Lincoln 
County, which office lie held for three terms. Meanwhile he 
studied law under the late Judge John Kelsey, and was ad¬ 
mitted to practice in 1897, since which time he has been ac¬ 
tively practicing. 

Mr. Jones has served as mayor of Toledo, Independence and 
Newport. He represented Polk and Lincoln counties in the 
legislature for regular sessions and three special sessions. He 
was appointed registrar of the U. h. land office at Rosebuig, 
Oregon by President Taft in 1909, serving four years. 

Mr. Jones is author of the Roosevelt coast military highway, 
and of the Free Locks. 

In announcing his candidacy on the Republican ticket for 
secretary of state, Mr. Jones pledges his support for more and 
better roads, for irrigation of arid lands, for the improvement 
of rivers and harbors, government building and maintenance 
of all roads in national forests, for the classification of all 
lands in the forest reserve, that the non-timbered, agricultural 
and grazing land may be segregated and thrown open for 
settlement, and for a bigger and better Oregon generally. 


Judge Henry J. Bean 

T HE life of Judge Henry J. Bean has been one of con¬ 
sistent progress. Judge Bean was born November 13, 
1853, at Bethel, Maine, the son of Timothy Bean, farmer and 
cattle dealer. In 1866, the father came to Oregon with a 
brother and settled in L T matilla county. 

Judge Bean was educated in the schools and acadamies ot 
Maine, and he studied law and was admitted to practice law in 
that state on March 9, 1881. Immediately afterward he came 
to Oregon and practiced law at Pendleton until elected to the 
bench. While pursuing studies part of six years, he taught 
school. 

From 1882 to 1884 Judge Bean was city attorney of Pen¬ 
dleton From 1885 to 1886 he was city recorder. From 1896 
to 1900 he was district attorney, the district comprising 
Umatilla and Morrow counties. From 1904 to 1906 he was 
county judge. From 1906 to 1911 he was circuit judge ot 
the sixth judicial district. In 1911 he became associate justice 
of the supreme court of Oregon. Judge Bean is a Republican. 
He is a member of several of the leading fraternal organi¬ 
zations. 


Robert Clinton Bonser 

R OBERT CLINTON BONSER was born in Columbia 
county, Oregon, December 24, 1859. He attended public 
schools in Portland, later attending business college here and 
graduating from Van Dernaillen’s Engineering school m 1892. 
He spent his early life cutting cordwood, pulling fishing 
boats, steamboating and fishing. He has been county surveyor 
of Multnomah county since January 1, 1915. 


Sam A. Kozer 

S AM A. KOZER was born 
in Cumberland county, 
Pennsylvania, October 19, 
1871. He came to Portland 
in 1890, shortly afterward 
removing to Astoria, where 
he has since maintained his 
residence. Mr. Kozer was 
appointed auditing clerk by 
the secretary of state in 
1899 and served in that ca¬ 
pacity for eight years. He 
was later promoted to the 
position of chief clerk and 
upon the creation of the of¬ 
fice of state insurance com¬ 
missioner in 1909, he was 
appointed commissioner. In J911 he made another advance, 
becoming chief deputy secretary of state. Since the accession 
of Secretary of State Olcott to the governorship in March, 
1919, Mr. Kozer has had full charge of the office, discharg¬ 
ing the duties of secretary of state with marked efficiency. 

“In seeking the Republican nomination for the office of 
secretary of state,’ said Mr. Kozer, I am basing my candi¬ 
dacy upon an intimate knowledge of the duties ot the office 
and affairs and needs of the state, gained through an experi¬ 
ence covering a long period of service in the secretary of 
state’s office. 

“I believe a public official is, in fact, a public servant and 
that he should serve all the people all the time in a prompt 
and efficient manner.” 



Governor Frank O. Lowden 

G OVERNOR FRANK O. LOWDEN, candidate for presi¬ 
dent of the United States, started life as a barefooted boy 
on a small farm; was teaching a country school at 15 years, 
and sweeping out the sehoolhouse for the extra dollar or two. 
By hard work and persistent struggle against heavy odds he 
won for himself a university education and a foothold in the 
practice of law. Thereafter his exceptional abilities and earn¬ 
est application advanced him steadily and rapidly to conspic¬ 
uous business and professional success. Incidentally, these 
qualities, coupled with his keen Americanism and public spirit¬ 
ed activities, won recognition from the public; he was sent to 
Congress from the Thirteenth District in 1906, and elected 
Governor of Illinois in 1916. 

As Governor lie inaugurated an efficiency system which 
abolished 125 overlapping and wasteful commissions and 
boards, establishing instead of nine state departments, each 
with definite duties and responsibilities. Thereby and through 
the elimination of other wasteful methods, he effected a tax 
reduction of 33 per cent in two years, and this under war 
conditions. 

He secured passage of a new corporation law, pronounced 
by business men the soundest in the United States; started 
highway improvements which will mean 1,800 miles of addi¬ 
tional hard-surfaced roads in the state; obtained payment of 
interest to the state on all public funds held in the state treas¬ 
ury; inaugurated a budget system to control appropriations 
and made provision for beginning work on the Illinois water¬ 
way link to connect the Great Lakes with the Gulf of Mexico. 
He has manv other constructive achievements to his credit, and 
with the people of Illinois solidly behind him, is working out 
further construction plans. 







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Judge George W. Stapleton 


Charles S. Rudeen 


C IRCUIT Judge George 
W. Stapleton occupies a 
high position among the jur¬ 
ists of Portland He is 
equally well known on the 
Washington side of the Co¬ 
lumbia, as he practiced in 
the Evergreen state for sev¬ 
eral years before coming to 
Portland. 

His parents were John and 
Josephine Stapleton, his 
father being a farmer and 
stockman. He attended Pa¬ 
cific University at Forest 
Grove, but did not graduate. 
In October, 188 4, he began 
the study of the law, and marrying in Goldendale, Washing¬ 
ton in 1886, he began practice in that town. After four years 
he removed to Vancouver, and there he remained until 1898, 
building up a large practice. 

Judge Stapleton has served as mayor of three towns, Gol¬ 
dendale and Vancouver, and was the mayor of his home town, 
Gresham, not far from Portland. His principal investments 
are in Portland real estate. 



In the eighties Judge Stapleton was a member of the terri¬ 
torial militia in Washington. He was presidential elector on 
the gold Democrat ticket in the same state in 1896. but became 
a Republican following the advent of Bryanism in the Demo¬ 
cratic party. He is a Mason and a member of the Mystic 
Shrine, being potentate of A1 Kader temple, Portland. 

Judge Stapleton was appointed to the bench in 1917 to fill 
the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Davis, and a 
year later was elected by a large vote. 


Charles Hanson Gram 

TN being elected six successive times as president of the Ore- 
gon State Federation of Labor, Charles Hanson Gram has 
made a record unequalled by any man in the history of the 
organization. Mr. Gram was first elected to the office in 1903, 
and served continuously for six terms. 

Mr. Gram became deputy labor commissioner under Hon. 
O. P. Hoff in 1907, serving ten years. In 1918 he was elected 
labor commissioner, which office he now holds. 

Mr. Gram was born in Denmark on January 24, 1868. He 
came to America after he graduated in schools equal to Amer¬ 
ican high schools, and followed farming and timbering for 
many years, spending nearly all of the years since arriving in 
America on the Pacific Coast. He has been a staunch sup¬ 
porter of the Republican system of government, is a member 
of the Masons, Maccabees, Woodmen of the World, United 
Artisans and Moose. 



C HARLES S. RU¬ 
DEEN is a man of 
great capacity. His suc¬ 
cess in various business 
enterprises shows that he 
is capable of doing big 
things, and is not a man 
of simply one idea. 

Among the businesses 
which he owns and in 
which he is interested, is 
the Alder Market Com¬ 
pany, of which he is pres¬ 
ident; the Portland Kosh¬ 
er Market Company, of 
which he is a stockholder; 

Sundeen, Rudeen and 
Steibig P'urniture Com¬ 
pany, of which he is pres¬ 
ident; Meve’s Restaurant, 
of which he is president; 

Bab’s Restaurant, of which he is owner, and the State Bank 
of Portland, of which he is a director and stockholder. 

There are more than 150 people in the employ of companies 
which he heads, and the payroll is about $175,000 annually. 

Mr. Rudeen is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and 
all other civic organizations. In 1919 he was president of the 
State Pilot Commission, and a director of the Rose Show. He 
was also a member of the State Consolidation Commission. 



Charles Albert Bigelow 

rMTY COMMISSIONER BIGELOW is a 
native of Michigan, where he was born July 
28, 1875. He came to the Northwest while still 
a youth, and attended school at Olympia, 'Wash¬ 
ington. 

Coming to Portland in 1894, Mr. Bigelow en- 
_ tered the employ of W. H. Markell, East Side 

Department store, later becoming a member of the firm. He 
was elected commissioner at the first commission election in 
1913, was re-elected in 1915 and again in 1918. During his 
first four years of office he was in charge of the department of 
finance; since that period he has been head of the department 
of public affairs, fire department, street cleaning, municipal 
shops, incenerator and public markets. 

His work for the city has been of the highest order, having 
applied modern business methods to the affairs under his 
charge, and he has carefully scrutinized expenditure of public 
funds at all times. 


Frederick M. De Neffe 

'C’REDERICK M. DE NEFFE, attorney-at-law, with offices 
at 907 Yeon building, was born in Iowa and spent his boy¬ 
hood days in Spokane, Washington, where he graduated from 
high school in 1901. Later he attended the University of Mich¬ 
igan and graduated from the law department in 1906 He 
has been practicing law for 14 years, all the time in Portland, 
except two years in Eugene. He was at one time trustee of 
the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club. He is married and 
has one child, the family living at Garden Home. 

Mr. De Neffe is a Republican. 


Commissioner A. A. Muck 

/COMMISSIONER A. A. MUCK is running for re-election 
because of strong appeals made by friends and associates. 
In speaking of his platform, Mr. Muck said: 

“I favor 100 per cent Americanism in all departments of 
county government; enforcement of law and order; develop¬ 
ment of the budget system; reduction of cost of government by 
consolidation of conflicting activities; home labor and home 
products. 

“Hshall keep my office door open, as I have in the past, so 
that the public can transact business without delay.” 










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Schubel 

C HRISTIAN SCHUBEL, 
candidate or the Republi¬ 
can nomination for state sena¬ 
tor from Clackamas county, has 
served three years in the lower 
house. During that time he has 
made a splendid record, being 
author of the following legis¬ 
lation : 

An act assessing water pow¬ 
er, and which it is estimated 
added $1,500,000 to the assessed 
valuation ct Clackamas county 
during 1919; the eight-hour 
law for mills and factories; the 
general fund act, which it is 
estimated saved the state $10,- 
000 in interest annually; the state board ot conciliation and 
arbitration law; the foreign corporation act, which it is esti¬ 
mated added approximately $85,000 annually to the revenue 
of the state, and the inheritance tax law which it is estimated 
increased the revenues of the state approximately $135,000 
annually. 

Mr. Schubel plans to introduce legislation, if elected, re¬ 
quiring the state to purchase all road material, forbidding 
aliens from owning land, providing lor compulsory arbitra¬ 
tion, and equalizing taxation. 

He further states that lie “will favor all legislation calcu¬ 
lated to develop the state,” and that he will stand for “a square 
deal for all and special privileges for none.” 


John W. Bell 

OMING from Ohio in 1893, John W. Bell began the prac¬ 
tice of law in Portland with such diligence and success 
that he became a judge of the district court July 2/, 1908. 

Probably no other man has done so much in both simplifying 
and advancing the work of the district court as Judge Bell. 
Soon after accepting a place upon the bench he brought cer¬ 
tain matters to the attention of the state legislators at Salem, 
which resulted in the district court of Multnomah county being 
divided into three departments, and a separate court ot small 
claims: an arrangement which still exists, and which has been 
conducive to expediency and efficiency. 

Judge Bell, through his policy to administer justice without 
fear or favor, has acquired a host of friends and staunch sup¬ 
porters. He is a member of the Masons, and the Knights and 
Ladies of Security. 

Judge Bell is a Republican, which party he has served long 
and well. 



Christian 



John Hargreaves Carson 

J OHN Hargreaves Carson was horn and brought up in Ore¬ 
gon. Born in Salem on November 2, 1894, Mr. Carson 
attended the public schools at Salem, and upon graduation 
from high school, entered Mt. Angel College, finishing at 
Willamette University. 

Immediately upon finishing school, he began the practice of 
law, being associated witli his father in the office of Carson 
and Brown, located at 213-218 U. S. Bank building, Salem. 
Upon the death of his father, young Carson took his place in 
the firm. He was in company M, 3rd Oregon infantry on the 
Mexican border, in 1916, and at the close of the war was in 
the coast artillery officers’ training school at Fort Monroe, 
Virginia. Mr. Carson is a Republican, and a member of the 
Masons, Elks, and A. O. U. W. 


Harvey Edwin Cross 

H A R V E Y E I) W I N 
CROSS, who has en¬ 
tered the race for county 
judge of Clackamas county 
on the Republican ticket, in 
answer to urgent appeals of 
countless friends, is a native 
of Oregon. He was born in 
Clackamas county on June 
6, 1856, and lias lived in the 
state all his life. 

Lorenzo Dow Cross and 
Dorcas Cross, his parents, 
were pioneers of Oregon. 

Mr. Cross attended the 
public schools of Oregon 
City, graduating in 1874. 

In 1872, when the Oregon City locks were built, he worked 
for 75 cents a day, carrying drills. He taught school at a log 
cabin in Sandy in 1874 and at Estacada the following year. 
In 1875 he began the studyof law, during the following sum¬ 
mer keeping toll gate on the old Barlow road. 

He was married in 1879, building a home in Oregon City. 
Four years later he purchased the present townsite of Glad¬ 
stone and founded that city in 1893. 

He served as county treasurer for three years, state senator 
for two years, representative in the legislature in 1919. He 
promoted the Gladstone Chatauqua, the largest on the coast, 
in 1894, and gave the association a free lease on Gladstone 
Park for fifty years. Mr. Cross is a Republican, and though 
not much of an order man, he has belonged to the Baptist 
church for 44 years. 



Judge Harry Landin Benson 

J UDGE HARRY LANDIN BENSON was born and brought 
up in the great west. His birthplace was Stockton, Cali¬ 
fornia, and the date July 6, 1854. 

Judge Benson’s father was Henry C. Benson, minister of 
the M. E. church, and second editor of the Pacific Christian 
Advocate, of Portland. 

He was educated on the coast, attending Portland Academy, 
and graduating from the University of the Pacific, at Santa 
Clara, California. 

For some time he taught country school and read law. He 
was principal of the Grants Pass schools for seven years, dis¬ 
trict attorney of the first judicial district from 1892 to 1896, 
representative from Josephine county in the legislature in 
1897, elected circuit judge of the first judicial district in 1898, 
again in 1904 and 1910. In 1914 he was elected to the supreme 
bench. 

Judge Benson is a Mason, Elk and A. O. U. W. 


John A. Mears 

J OHN A. MEARS, prominent attorney, has announced his 
candidacy for the Republican nomination of district judge 
of Multnomah county, department No. 1. 

Mr. Mears has practiced law in the city since 1903. He is 
prominent in fraternal circles, belonging to both the Masons 
and Odd Fellows. He has also been active in civic affairs, 
having served as president of the Franklin Improvement 
league. He is married and his son saw service in France 
during the war. 










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Justice Thomas A. McBride Charles Henry Dye 

ITYHOMAS A. McBRIDE, justice of the Oregon Supreme /^HARLES HENRY DYE is an attorney of Oregon City 
Court, has been on the bench in Oregon for 23 years. He Ly who lias an influence upon the community in which he 
has served on the Supreme bench since 1919, in which year lives. In 1913 when the movement was begun to banish saloons 

from Oregon City Mr. Dye was made chairman of the “Com¬ 
mittee of 100’’ and a vigorous fight was waged which resulted 


he was appointed to fill a vacancy. In 191Y he was re-elected 
by an enormous majority. He was not even opposed for the 
nomination. 

A naitive son of Oregon, Judge McBride was born in Yam¬ 
hill County, November 15, 1817. His parents were James 
and Mabala (Miller) McBride. He received his education 
'n the common schools and at McMinnville College, and was 
admitted to the bar at Salem in Oetobei, 1870. He began 
practicing the same year at Lafayette. 

In 1872, he removed to St. Helens and practiced there until 
1877, when he removed to Salt Lake City, Utah, for three 
years. He returned to Oregon in 1880, locating this time in 
Oregon City, and entering into a partnership with the late 
E. L. Eastham, which continued until his election in 1892 as 
circuit judge. 


in Oregon’s pioneer city joining the dry column. 

Mr. Dye was born on a farm near Fort Madison, Iowa, 
August 23. 1856. His father, an Iowa pioneer, descended from 
a Dane who settled with the Dutch in New Amsterdam about 
1680. Mr. Dye’s wife is Eva Emery Dye, the well known 
Oregon writer. They met and married at Oberlin College. 

O. A. Neal 

A TTORNL\ A. O. NEAL is a man who does not get out 
and talk about things much—he simply goes out and does 
them. Attorney Neal graduated from the University of Ore¬ 
gon and his clients and friends include numberless men of big 
^ ^airs in the life of Portland and Oregon. He has been prac¬ 
ticing law since 1899. His office is located in the Chamber of 
Commerce Building. 


Chester A. Sheppard 

rPEN years’ experience in teaching school was a valuable 
A training preliminary to taking up the practice of law, for 
Chester A. Sheppard, prominent attorney in the Pittock build- 


Judge Lawrence T. Harris 

T AY RENCE r. HARRIS, candidate for re-election as jus- 
tice of the supreme court, was born at Albany, Ore., Sep¬ 
tember 13, 1873. He graduated from the University of 
Oregon in 1893 and, in law, from Ann Arbor in 1896. He 
served in the house of representatives from Lane County in 
the sessions of 1901 and 1903. He was appointed to the 
circuit bench in 1905. He was elected in 1906 without oppo¬ 
sition, and in 1912 received both Republican and Democratic 
nominations and was re-elected without opposition. He was 
elected to the supreme bench in 1914. 

Justice Harris’ slogan is: “Continue impartially to uphold 
the law and justice without fear or favor,” and in liis platform 
he savs: “I will to the best of my ability continue to adminis¬ 
ter the law as it is without regard to wealth, poverty, party 
or creed of any litigant or attorney . 39 

Justice Harris has no opposition for renomination. 


<ng. 

When in 1909 Mr. Sheppard resigned as principal of the 
Creston school in Portland, he stepped right into a good law 
practice, and he has done so well since he has never found 
cause to regret his change in profession. 

Born in Grand Rapids, North Dakota, June 28, 1879, Mr. 
Sheppard was educated at the Fremont, Michigan, high school, 
at Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, Michigan, and at the Michigan 
Isormal College, Ypsilanti, Michigan. Before teaching in 
Chicago, he had taught some years in Michigan and Illinois 
Mr. Sheppard is a member of Phi Delta Phi law fraternity 
and of Phi Delta Pi, a literary college fraternity. He be¬ 
longs to the Masonic order, and is also a member of the Port¬ 
land Commercial Club and of the Portland Automobile Club 
He takes a lively interest in civic affairs; he has been instru¬ 
mental in bringing large Eastern capital into Oregon for in¬ 
vestment in timber and other undeveloped resources 

Mr. Sheppard is married, and has one daughter The 
family residence is in Irvington. 






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John Twohy 


I N the array of Portland’s legal lights, no name is brighter 
than most men who have confined themselves to one thing 
all their lives. In the Pacific Northwest he is widely known 
for the wmrk that Twohy Brothers, railroad contractors, have 
done. Much of the larger construction that has signalized 
the progress of the upper Pacific Coast during the past few 
years has been done by this firm. At the time of writing the 
announcement has just been made that Twohy Brothers are to 
build the new line of the Southern Pacific from Grants Pass 
to Crescent City, California. This will be but one of the big 
things accomplished by the firm. Portland is their headquar¬ 
ters, and extension shops and offices are maintained in this city. 

Judge Twohy, as he is commonly known, was a lawyer in 
Michigan, his native state, and became prosecuting attorney of 
his home county. He later moved to St. Paul and was there 
elected judge for two terms. In 1898 he turned westward 
again, and this time became associated with his brothers in 
the contracting business. This business is now being carried on 
by his sons. 

Judge Twohy is also interested in the banking business, 
being director and vice president of the Northwestern National 
Bank and Portland Trust and Savings Bank, and is likewise 
affiliated with financial institutions in California and Spokane. 


A. Lincoln Barbur 

C OMMISSIONER of Public Works, A. Milton Barbur, 
was born in Polk county, Oregon, on June 4, 1861. As a 
youth he worked in harvest fields, cutting wood during the 
winters. For twenty-five years he was an accountant, employed 
by Front street merchants. He was elected city auditor in 
1907, serving ten years. In 1917 he was elected city com¬ 
missioner. 


Frederick Van Voorhies Holman 

ERHAPS no other man has 
had such an active part in 
the development of Portland 
and the Oregon country as At¬ 
torney Frederick Van Voorhies 
Holman. 

Mr. Holman was born at 
Baker’s Bay, at the mouth of 
the Columbia, on August 29, 

1852. He was admitted to the 
bar January 8, 1879, and has 
practiced law in this city con¬ 
tinuously since that date. 

Mr. Holman went to public 
schools in Portland, graduat¬ 
ing at Portland Academy and 
Female Seminary in 1868, and from the University of Cali¬ 
fornia in 1875, with the degree of Ph. B. 

Mr. Holman was a member of the charter commission for 
framing the new chater for Portland in 1902-3 and 1908-9; he 
was a delegate at large to the national Democratic conven¬ 
tions of 1892, 1904 and 1912; Democratic national committee¬ 
man for Oregon, 1904-1908; regent of University of Oregon, 
1903-1917; member of numberless civic, state, national, fra¬ 
ternal and social organizations, many of which have honored 
him with the most important offices. Mr. Holman is an orator 
and author, and father of the name “Rose City,” and has done 
much to encourage rose culture. He is a director and coun¬ 
sellor for the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company. 



Steers and Coman 

T HE development of Port- 
lan 1 as a musical center 
can be attributed in a large 
measure to the splendid 
work of Miss Lois Steers, 
head o p Steers and Coman. 

It was while she was in 
New York studying music 
that Miss Steers conceived 
the idea of bringing the 
great musical stars to the 
Northwest. Upon her -eturn 
here. Miss Steers immedi¬ 
ately began the work wf ich 
has resulted in the musical 
culture of Portland and 
other Northwest cities. 

All the greatest artists of the world have been brought to 
Portland by Miss Steers. The grand opera companies form¬ 
erly passing up the city entirely, have been booked locally 
by Miss Steers and large attendances have greeted each per¬ 
formance. These attractions were often brought here by Miss 
Steers at a great financial risk. Today, the concern has gained 
the confidence of the people so thoroughly that the name need 
only be mentioned in connection with a musical affair and it 
is a success. 

The Steers and Coman agency has been established here for 
eighteen years. For some time, Miss Wvnn Coman, the maga¬ 
zine writer, was associated with Miss Steers. Organization 
work throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah 
and British Columbia was done personally by Miss Steers. The 
company is now represented in every important town in this 
territory. The company’s offices are maintained at 601, 602 
and 603 Columbia building. 










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William Hanley 

■WILLIAM HANLEY, of Harney county, is a man devoted 
™ to public service. If a public question comes up that de¬ 
mands action, W illiam Hanley will dron his private business 
to attend to it. 



Service is the one word that sums up his career. 

Early in his life he became tired of school and sought the 
outdoors. Nature has been his schoolmaster. 

His church never closes. In the daytime it is illuminated 
by the sun; at night by the moon and stars. 

Early in life, too, Mr. Hanley discovered Central Oregon, 
and he saw land there that he determined to possess. Once 
Mr - 1 , nlev determines to do anything it is on the road to 
accomplishment. He today owns the land he had picked as 
desirable when driving cattle as a boy in Central Oregon. 

A lug land-owner himself, he sees the evil of large land 
io mgs, and he sells land to actual liomeseekers on small 
payments down, low interest and long time. 

Homes, more homes, more producers, more schools, more 
prosperity for the masses is Mr. Hanley s religion 

Political questions, like the tariff, do not bother him verv 
much when big questions like the federal control of practically 
ail ot Oregon s vast resources are involved. 

Mr. Hlanley would like to see these vast resources—land 

people ° not th er - used for the beilefit of the common 

ington’ D C C C ° rp ° ratlons or the bureaucracies at Wash- 

bCen fi S htin g for the se ideals at home and 
abroad attending conservation congresses, traveling on eo v- 

he SSr* U ’ e * * ** -5- 

Bright and cheery and optimistic, there are times when Mr 
Hanley .. «d, and that i, when he l s in the b g c t L of tte 

nation and sees all of the “pale-faced neonle *0 l a a » 

working for small wages and raisin* fWP 1 ^ Up ’ 

poverty, when there is Ll.hlnd 

were only located in the country. e * th y 


So William Hanley puts his shoulder to the wheel, without 
hope of reward, and strives to carry out some of these ideas 
which his big brain has evolved and which his clean, healthful 
outdoor life has given him the energy to undertake. 


Hamilton Johnstone 


TTAMILTON JOHNSTONE, one of Portland’s best known 
lawyers, was born in Mobile, Alabama, April 4, 1874, and 
after an education in the public schools and colleges of his 
native state, was admitted to the bar at the age of 21, and im¬ 
mediately thereafter removed to Chicago, where he practiced 
law for several years. 

In Chicago he was connected with the law firm of Lowden, 
Estabrook & Davis, and for a number of vears was private 
secretary to Colonel Frank O. Lowden, since then member of 
Congress and Governor of Illinois; and thereafter was an at¬ 
torney for the Harris Trust & Savings Bank and its predeces¬ 
sor, N. W. Harris & Co. 

Removing to the state of Washington in 1907, he served a 
term as prosecuting attorney of Okanogan county, Washing¬ 
ton, and came to Portland in 1911, where he has since resided. 
He is a member of the law firm of Johnstone, Gay & Hodges 
at 523-4-5-6 Gasco building. He volunteered for service in 
both the Spanish-American and great European wars. 

He is a director of the Roosevelt Republican Club, member 
of the Republican Club of Oregon, American Legion, Elks, 
Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Moose, C Woodmen 
of the World and other political, civic and fraternal organi¬ 
zations. 


Dr. Earl Smith 

T^R- EARL SMI 1 H succeeded in the practice of medicine 
because of a life-long ambition to become a physician. He 
was born in Portland on February 8, 1882. 

Dr. Smith was educated in the public schools of this city, 
graduating from the medical department of the University of 
Oregon in 1908. Irom 1898 until 190t he worked in the 
A. W. Allen drug store, starting in as errand boy. In 1902 
he received the state license in pharmacy, and two years later 
entered medical college, working evenings, Sundays and during 
vacation to pay his wav. 

From 1908 to 1909, Dr. Smith was an intern at the Good 
Samaritan hospital, later becoming assistant surgeon of the 
O. W. R. & N., and had charge of the Grass Valley hospital 
during the construction of the Central Oregon railroad I ater 
he began the practice of medicine in Portland, being appointed 
to the office of county coroner in Octobei, 1917, and elected 
to the office the following year. 

Dr Smith is a 32nd degree Mason, a Shriner, K. P. and 
Elk. He is a member of the city and county medical societies. 


ur. j. n. Uavis 

'T'HE large dental practice built up by Dr. J. H. Davis is 
due to ^satisfied patients. Dr. Davis was admitted to prac¬ 
tice in 1 897, and has been practicing in Portland continuously 
since that time, excepting two years, while he was a captain 
in the army, serving two years in France. He graduated from 
the Portland University. Dr. Davis’ offices are at 406-407 
Stevens Building. 


Oregon fruit is shipped around the Vorld. Part in the fresh 
state—part in glass, tins and cartons. 











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Dr. Frank M. Taylor 

T^R. FRANK M. TAY- 
LOR is a native son of 
Oregon and a descendant of 
Oregon pioneers. His mother 
Mary (Bateman) Taylor, 
was a pioneer of 1817, and 
his father, Solon Z. Taylor, 
came to Oregon in 1861. Dr. 
Taylor passed most of his 
boyhood on a farm. He re¬ 
ceived his public school 
education in the Halsey 
schools. 

In 1896 he graduated in 
the classical course from the 
University of Oregon, and 
the next year entered the 
Medical Department of the University at Portland. He grad¬ 
uated in 1901. 

He put in the following year at Good Samaritan Hospital 
as house physician, preliminary to beginning general practice 
as a physician and surgeon. He has been in active practice 
ever since. 

In addition to his own practice, Dr. Taylor has been assist¬ 
ant surgeon for the O. R. & N. and its successor, the O.-W. 
R. & N. Company, since 1905. For the past 12 years he has 
been head examiner for the Metropolitan Life Association in 
Oregon. He is also medical referee for the Pacific Coast 
Casualty Company. 

Dr. Taylor is a member of the Masonic order, of the State 
and County Medical Association, and of the Transportation 
Club. In 1906 he married Miss Nettie Taylor, of Portland, 
who is well known in musical circles as a soprano soloist. 
Their home is at 95 Fern Place, Laurelhurst. Dr. Taylor’s 
offices are at 911-12 Corbett building. 

Wright 

D R, B. E. WRIGHT has 
been practicing dent¬ 
istry in Portland for a quar¬ 
ter of a century. Just 25 
years ago on St. Patrick’s 
day Dr Wright arrived in 
Portland, and opened an of¬ 
fice in the Dekum building. 
It was his first experience 

in the profession, having 

graduated from the state 
University of Iowa only a 
few days before his depar¬ 
ture from that state. 

Dr. Wright was born in 

Effingham, Illinois, on Jan- 

ury 18, 1871. His great 
grandfather was William Wright, a revolutionary soldier, who 
lost his right arm in a hand-to-hand fight with the saber at 

the great battle of King’s Mountain. The army had been at¬ 

tacked while preparing breakfast. 

Morgan Wright, his grandfather, was located in Southern 

Illinois at the outbreak of the Civil war. He was known as a 

black abolitionist in those days. He was too old to join the 
colors himself, but sent seven sons to defend the Union. His 
father was one of those sons, and still lives with his wife at 
Neleigh, Nebraska. 

Dr. Wright has one of the largest dental practices in the 
entire Northwest. His offices are located in the Raleigh build 
ing at Sixth and Washington streets. 


Dr. B. E. 




Dr. George Parrish 



P ORTLAND is for¬ 
tunate in having 
fox city health officer 
Dr. George Parrish, 
whose record of accom¬ 
plishment in such ca¬ 
pacity is one of which 
he may well feel proud. 
Not only does he pos¬ 
sess professional abil¬ 
ity to a high degree, 
but he is a “live wire,” 
as is evidenced by the 
state of efficiency to 
which he has raised the 
local health bureau. 


Dr. Parrish was born 
in St. Louis, Mo., 
April 27, 1872. He 

graduated from the 
Washington University of that city, and in 1894 from the 
Washington University Medical College. During 1901-5 he 
studied in Vienna and Berlin. 


All forms of athletics possess a strong attraction for Dr. 
Parrish, but he has an especial liking for boxing. That he is 
“handy with the mitts” himself is proven by the fact that he 
has been returned winner in four amateur boxing tournaments. 

Before coming to Portland in 1908, Dr. Parrish was con¬ 
nected with the St. Louis health bureau, the Missouri state 
asylum, and a number of city and county hospitals; a training 
which made it possible for him to do such excellent work in 
Portland, during the various influenza epidemics. 

Dr. Parrish is married, and has two children. Having re¬ 
cently disposed of a beautiful home in Irvington, the family is 
now residing at the Mallory Hotel. 

The city health officer was appointed bv Mayor Baker, and 
is now serving his third year. He is a Republican—not pas¬ 
sively, but one of the “go-get-’em” type. 


Rufus Albertus Leiter 


R UFUS ALBERTUS LEITER stands high among the law¬ 
yers of Oregon. He was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, Oc¬ 
tober 3, 1875, his parents being John Martin Leiter a promin¬ 
ent lumberman of Portland, and Margaret (Katz) Leiter. 
Graduating from the high school of Portland in 1891, he 
entered Stanford University, and received the degree of bach¬ 
elor of arts from that institution in 1899. 

The same year he was admitted to practice in Oregon, and 
has been engaged in his profession in Portland since that time. 
In July, 1910, he formed a partnership with Franklin T. 
Griffith, now president of the Portland Railway, Light & 
Power Company. Two years later by the association of Har¬ 
rison Allen, the firm became Griffith, Leiter & Allen, with 
offices at 808 Electric building. 

In 1905, Mr. Leiter was married to Christobel R. Sobey. 
Their home is at 385 Aspen street. Mr. Leiter is a charter 
member of Company H, Oregon National Guard, serving four 
years and receiving his discharge with the rank of first cor¬ 
poral. He is a member of Miller chapter of Phi Delta Phi, 
and also belongs to Phi Beta Kappa. He is known in a social 
way in Portland as a member of the Arlington, president of 
the Waverly Golf, Portland Commercial, Multnomah Amateur 
Athletic and the University clubs. 










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Blaesing Granite Works 



C IVIC beauty 
goes further 
toward creating 
commerce than 
any other indus¬ 
try on the Paci¬ 
fic Coast. Toward 
civic beauty few 
men have done as 
much as H. T. 

Blaesing. 

Roses, for 
which Portland 
is famous, have a 
greater friend in 
Mr. Blaesing 
than the granite 
business. Yet 
when it comes to 
monuments, the 
products of the 
Blaesing plant 
stand up under 
the strongest 
competition. 

Not only has Mr. Blaesing been active in the move to get 
others to plant roses, but he has planted roses himself. At his 
home Mr. Blaesing has more than 200 rose bushes, compris¬ 
ing forty varieties. 

The Blaesing Granite Works is located at 267 Third street. 
Next year the company will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniver¬ 
sary of its existence. 



A. C. 

W ITH three acres filled 
soiidly with steel rail, 
A. C. Callan has by far the 
largest supply on the en¬ 
tire Pacific Coast The busi¬ 
ness was established only 
two years ago and has since 
grown bv leaps and bounds. 

In addition to wholesaling 
iron and steel rails, Mr. Cal¬ 
lan is coast representative 
for the W. A. Zelnicker Sup¬ 
ply Company, St. Louis lo¬ 
comotive manufacturers. 
Logging, lumber and con¬ 
tracting companies can be 
supplied by Mr. Callan com¬ 
pletely. 


Callan 


Ray Barkhurst 

fT'HE commercial career of Ray Barkhurst is an instance of 
how rapidly a business may be built to large proportions 
in the Pacific Northwest. He has been in the merchant tailor¬ 
ing business since he was twenty years old. 

Mr. Barkhurst was born in Denver, April 17, 1883. He was 
educated in San Francisco. Seven years ago he married Miss 
C onstance A. Shaw of Chicago. He is a member of the Elks, 
the Portland Press Club and the Portland Ad Club. His 
establishment is at Sixth and Stark streets. In politics Mr. 
Barkhurst is a Republican. 


Thomas Gough Ryan 

TN the array of Portland’s legal lights, no name is brighter 
than that of Thomas G. Ryan, attorney, 607 Title & 
Trust building. 

Mr. Ryan was born in Minneapolis, Minn., August 14, 
1886. He attended the De La Salle College, and after com¬ 
ing to Portland studied law at the University of Oregon Law 
School. 

Notwithstanding the demands of a constantly increasing 
law practice, Tom Ryan gave much time to furthering all 
forms of patriotic endeavor and activities, and his services as 
speaker for various drives, both locally and throughout the 
state were much sought, and never refused. 

In politics Mr. Ryan is a Republican; and he is a live one. 
He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the A. O. H. 
Irish-American Fellowship Club, and the Delta Theta Phi. 


Mountain View Sanitarium Company 

T'HP Mountain \ iew Sanitarium Company owns and oper- 
1 A ates the Mountain View Sanitarium, as well as the Wav- 
erly Sanitarium. The Mountain View Sanitarium specializes 
in nervous, alcoholic, and drug cases. Offices are maintained 
at 101/ Corbett building. Dr. W. T. Williamson is president 
of the company. Dr. J. F. Calbreath is vice-president, and 
Dr. W. Hugh Williamson is secretary and treasurer. 


Alfred F. Smith’s best hobby isn’t a hobby-horse, any wav. 
because he d rather walk than do anything, particularly when 
Alfred F., Jr., goes along. 


Seid G. Back, Jr. 

S EID G. BACK, JR., son 
of the late pioneer Chi¬ 
nese merchant, was born and 
brought up in Portland. His 
record in business has been 
one of success. 

Mr. Back was educated in 
the English and Chinese, 
first studying under a private 
tutor, and later attending 
the old Bishop Scott Mili¬ 
tary Academy. In 1907 he 
graduated from the Univer¬ 
sity of Oregon, and in the 
same year was admitted to 
the bar, being the first Chi¬ 
nese to pass this examination 
in the United States. 

For years he acted as Chinese interpreter, being chief in¬ 
terpreter of the United States Immigration Service from 1903 
to 1908. Mr. Back is now manager of Wing Sing Long Kee 
and Company, of this city, and also manager of the Man Sang 
Long Company of Seattle. Both of these firms are in the 
salmon cannery contract business and general Chinese-Ameri¬ 
can importing and exporting business. The Back estate, for 
which he is attorney, has large hop-growing interests, as well 
as land holdings. 

Mr. Back is a progressive business man and is a member of 
various organizations. His friends are evenly divided between 
Chinese and Caucasians in Portland and other parts of the 
country. In 1909 Mr. Back made a trip to China where he 
traveled for eighteen months traveling and studying business 
conditions. 














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George R. Funk Co. 


G EORGE R. FUNK is the son of Thos. W, and Rachael M. 

Funk, and was born on a farm in Knox county, Missouri, 
on November 1, 1863. 

His first school days were spent in a log school house with 
split logs for benches. 

He is a graduate of the state normal school located at 
Kirksville, Missouri; a graduate of the law department of the 
University of Oregon; and the author and compiler of a book 
of 200 tables for the computation of realty values. 

He is a member of several civic organizations, and has been 
active in fraternal circles for twenty-five years. 



NEW HOME OF ARCHER & WIGGINS COMPANY 


Jones Bros, and Company 


T HE BUSINESS of Jones Brothers and Company has been 
developing continuously, until now the output of the com¬ 
pany has reached about a million dollars a year. 

Four plants are operated by the company. Aside the one in 
Portland, there are plants at Watsonville, California, Yakima, 
Washington, and Newberg, Oregon. 

The products of the company include apple cider, apple 
juice, apple vinegar, loganberry juice, and strawberry juice. 

The original plant of the company was established in 
1896. The officers are: as follows: Clias. W. Jones, pres¬ 
ident and treasurer; Sam Jones, vice-president; G. C. Jones, 
secretary. The plants in all three states are operated by 
seperate corporations, but the same stockholders own all 
companies. 



Dr. Harry R. Cliff 

D R. HARRY R. CLIFF 

has been practicing 
medicine for more than 
thirty-five years. For five 
years he held the office ot 
county physician of Multno¬ 
mah county, and for nine 
months he was in the United 
States service during the 
war. 

Mr. Cliff graduated from 
Darlington University, Eng¬ 
land, coming to America 
immediately to enter the 
medical profession. He is a 
member of the Republican 
party, and is affiliated with 
the Masonic lodge, Elks, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. 


Ballou & Wright 

S ALES of Ballou and Wright, auto accessory dealers last 
year amounted to over $3,000,000. Ballou and Wright 
established the business here in 1896, the lines being confined 
chiefly to bicycles and accessories. 

Today, Ballou and Wright are the foremost dealers in auto 
accessories, bicycles and motorcycles in the Northwest. In 
addition to their salesrooms and offices at Broadway and Oak 
in Portland, branches are maintained in Seattle and Spokane. 

The company employs 110 men, and has an annual payroll 
of approximately $200,000. 

The company was the first to engage in the automobile ac¬ 
cessory business in Portland. When the first automobile was 
received, the company began to carry supplies. Their line is 
now complete throughout. 

O. B. Ballou, one of the founders of the business is now 
president of the company. His partner, C. F. Wright, is vice- 
president and secretary. Other officers are: W. J. Finke, 
treasurer; G. Gary Lernley, manager Seattle branch; D. D. 
Hull, manager Spokane branch. 


Joseph 

Woerndle 

J OSEPH WOERN¬ 
DLE, prominent 
local attorney, is pres¬ 
ident of the Trans¬ 
atlantic Estates and 
Credit Co., whose of¬ 
fices are located at 220- 
222 Chamber of Com¬ 
merce building. 


Dr. G. M. Hoffman, D. M. D. 

D R. G. M. I-IOFFMAN 
was born in Sandspring, 
Alabama, and came to Se¬ 
attle, Wash., in 1902, where 
he graduated from Broad¬ 
way high school. In 1911 lie 
took up dentistry at the 
North Pacific College, of 
Portland, where lie gradu¬ 
ated in 1914'. On Novem¬ 
ber 25, 1914, Dr. Hoffman 
married Miss Alma Enke, 
daughter of Herman Enke. 
He has two sons. Marsh and 
George, ages four and two 
years. 

Dr. Hoffman is a member 
of the Masonic lodge, Knights of Pythias, Dramatic Order 
Knights of Khorassan, Rotary Club and Woodman of the 
World. 

He served in the world war as first lie itenant in the dental 
corps, where he put in one year’s service, also perfecting a 
positive cure for pyorrhea, known as the Autogenous Vaccine 
Method. He is a loyal member of the American Legion. 

















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MOTORING IN OREGON 


By Hirsch H. Bromberg 
Automobile Editor, Oregon Journal 


REGON—the land of motoring opportunities. 
Matchless in splendor, unparelleled in its high¬ 
ways of bewitching beauty, the broad land south 
of the Columbia river compels the admiration of 
all human tilings and issues its call to the 
lover of the outdoors to come and worship at 
the shrine of its ever changing grandeur. 



Cleft into two broad plains by a range of mountains noted 
for varied contradictions of quiet defile and craggy massive¬ 
ness, the land can indeed be called a place of motoring oppor¬ 
tunities. From the cool waters of the Pacific on the west coast 
to the broad stretches of wheat lands to the east, the motorist 
is continually confronted with a newness scarcely thought pos¬ 
sible in one portion of this great country. 


Along the coast, where sandy stretches of beach call a halt 
for a quiet hour broken only by the restless sweep of the water; 
or where jutting rocks toss high the spray from the combatting 
waves; or where the deeper voice of the ocean may be heard 
in subterranean caverns carved by the tireless sculpturing 
hand of the sea; Cannon Beach, Newport, Bandon, Port Or- 
ford—names known in story and woven with the romance of 
years; the lower sweeps of the Columbia river, rivaling the 
ocean itself in its wealth of anecdote and historical narrative. 


Then there are the western plains, broad acres where prod¬ 
uce is gathered to be shipped to all parts of the country and 
of the world—all a wealth of beauty, dotted with cattle, teem¬ 
ing with wealth in green and growing things; the vallevs of 
the Willamette, the Yamhill, the Tualatin, with their long, 
white road-ribbons, mile after mile of smooth passageways 
cutting the country on all sides. Here are opportunities for 
the motorist, here is the varied wealth of scenerv so sought 
after. 


Along the Columbia itself stretches the matchless Highway, 
one ot the world s triumphs of engineering, sweeping in ma¬ 
jestic curves at the will of the river, and bordered on one side 
by its sweeping tide and on the other by hroad fields or carved 
mountains ot rock. Plumes of water, flowing from the caps 
of the mountains themselves, dash their clouds of spray at the 
feet of the by-stander and wet the^passing motor cars with 
rainbow bits; the Vista House, where the eye may be cast 
through the gorge or may see the lower delta sweeps as the 
river bends toward the sea, marks the peak of man’s apprecia¬ 
tion for the works of infinite power. 

The apple orchards of Hood River, white in the spring 
with a shower ot petals and blossoms, and red and green in 
the late summer with branches laden with fruit; and the 
sweeps of the grazing country on toward the east, are never 
the same, ever-changing, ever presenting themselves in a new 
mood or a new garb. To the south through the valley of the 
Deschutes river, or in the foothills of the Blue mountains, the 
little brother of the Cascades, the plea of the good road is 
ever being heard, and while other lands in other states lie 
lethargic under seas of mud or dust, the motorist is finding 
Oregon responding to the needs of the day, and opening up 
its vastness to the explorer in the motor car. 

Crater Lake is the setting, the precious stone, in the casket 
of the state’s great wealth of beauty. Here, too, the good 
road is reaching, and the wanderer with the motor car is dis¬ 
covering daily new bits of quietness or unlooked-for riots of 
color. 

Dreamy or full of life, sweet with the smell of the woods 


and of the green plains, the state is yearly being accorded 
more and more of that appreciation the fickleness of human 
nature so seldom gives permanently. The roads are ever in the 
minds of the people of Oregon, who work with their hands 
and with their brains to perfect a great system for their own 
and for the use of their guests; and give of their wealth that 
their state may indeed be a land of motoring opportunities. 



C. L. Boss Automobile Company 

C. L. Boss, President 
615 Washington Street 

Hudson, Essex, Chalmers and Maxwell Automobiles and Max¬ 
well Trucks. Agency for Oregon and Southwest Washington. 

* I 'HE C. L. BOSS COMPANY is probably the largest re¬ 
tailers of automobiles in the city and its sales organization 
is second to none. In addition it does one of the largest whole¬ 
sale businesses of any firm in the city. The members of the 
firm are aggressive and wide awake and this spirit is reflected 
in the large volume of business which it has done. The firm 
has recently completed a shop and service building 200 feet 
by 60 feet extending through the block from Nineteenth and 
I rinity Place, d he salesrooms are located on Washington 
street with direct connection with the service and shop 
building. 


The supply of standing timber in Oregon is such that in a 
short time we will head the list of lumber producing states. 











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Scenic and Natural Resources Being Developed by 
Extensive System of Roads 

By Sydney B. Vincent 


/"OREGON last year launched the greatest road-building 
campaign in the history of the state; in fact, all previous 
road construction work falls almost into insignificance in com¬ 
parison with the efforts put forth in 1919. The State Highway 
Commission, which consists of Simon Benson, chairman; Rob¬ 
ert A. Booth, Newton J. Burgess and Herbert Nunn, state 
highway engineer, all men of broad vision and executive 
ability, had let contracts totaling $21,500,000. 

The'contracts let in 1919 provide 381 miles of hard surface, 
303 miles of good macadam, and 911 miles of grading, prepa¬ 
ratory to surfacing with a great mileage of cement or some 
form of the asphaltic covers, or with fust-class macadam. 

What such road construction will mean to the develop¬ 
ment of Oregon in the future would be difficult to estimate in 
dollars and cents, but that it will result in the bringing into 
production hundreds of thousands of acres of agricultural 
land and the development of many industrial enterprises to 
care for the products of the state, there can be no doubt, to 
say nothing of the vast tourist business which will result from 
such a splendid system of good roads in this wonderful scenic 
state. 

When it is considered that Oregon has an area of almost 
87,000 square miles and a population of less than one million, 
road development in the state during the past few years has 
been remarkable; in fact, it is doubtful if any state in the 
union his spent and contracted to spend on good roads so 
much per capita as Oregon. The people are aroused, not only 
to the pressing necessity of keeping abreast of the situation, 
but to capitalize to full measure the possibilities of such a 
road system. The work has only begun. 

Oregon’s enthusiasm in road building may be attributed to 
the example of a single county, Multnomah, in which Port¬ 
land, the metropolis of the state is situated. The completion 
of the first section of the now world famous Columbia River 
Highway, undoubtedly was the incentive for the great road 
programme which has been adopted by the people of Oregon. 
The first complete section of this marvelous scenic road, lead¬ 
ing from Portland to Eagle Creek, in eastern Multnomah 
County, some forty-five miles, called attention to the value 
and commercial possibilities of capitalizing the wonderful 
scenery of the state, and then the other angle, the develop¬ 
ment of the resources of the state, presented itself. Shortly 
there was a state-wide demand for good roads. The founda¬ 
tion had been laid, and today Oregon is building one of the 
greatest road systems. 

In my belief the true story of the origin of the Columbia 
River Highway has never fully been told. Mv attention first 
was called to the possibilities in 1904, or 1905, by Charles 
Coopey, then a manufacturing tailor of Portland. Mr. Coopey 
made little headway for a number of years, but finally got the 
attention of a few men with visions, who forthwith became en¬ 
thusiasts. The road, however, was not started without a long 
campaign of education. The average person looked upon it 
as a dream, but finally the project assumed tangible form, the 
money for its construction was provided by the people of Port¬ 
land and Multnomah County, and the road, the first “leg” of 
it, was completed to Eagle Creek, a wonderful spot in the 
forest reserve, used as a public camping ground. 

The Columbia River Highway, in its full extent, will run 
from Pendleton in Eastern Oregon to Astoria at the mouth 
of the Columbia River, the second largest commercial river in 


the United States. The road will be, when completed, 360 
miles in length and by this summer is expected to be more 
than half paved. All that wonderful stretch of scenic grandeur 
from Astoria to beyond The Dalles, will be completely paved 
for this summer’s travel. 

The Columbia River Highway will connect at Pendleton 
with the Old Oregon Trail, which continues southeast for a 
distance of 190 miles, crossing the Oregon Idaho line at Hunt- 
ington, making a continuous east and west highway in Oregon 
550 miles in length. 

With the wonderful road work in progress in California 
and in Oregon and Washington, surely these three wonderful 
states are coming into their own. By next summer the Paci¬ 
fic Highway from Portland to the California line will prac¬ 
tically be completely paved, giving, if Washington completes 
her Pacific Highway in time, and California, the northern 
portion of her section of that wonderful roadway, a completely 
paved Pacific Highway from Vancouver, B. C., to San Diego, 
two thousand miles of paved highway through a country teem¬ 
ing with scenic beauties. 

Where in the world will one find a better road through such 
magnificent country? 

Oregon and Washington have realized more slowly on their 
scenic assets than has California. This was but natural. Cali¬ 
fornia, especially Southern California, has been the Mecca 
of eastern tourists for a score of years. That part of our sister 
state of the south has budded a wonderful business. Her 
tourist crop has been her chief asset. Farther north the Kings 
River Canyon, the Yosemite and Tehoe have had a portion, 
but not a fair portion of the tourist business.. Still farther 
northward Oregon, with equally as good, and in some respects, 
more wonderful scenery, has had comparatively little of the 
tourist business, and Washington has had less, but a great 
change is taking place. Western Oregon is becoming better 
and better known for rugged beauty, for splendid fishing and 
hunting and for her wonderful climate. 

“How,” you may ask, “has this been brought about.” There 
is but one answer—the Columbia River Highway, the most 
wonderful roadway in all America, if not in the world; the 
most perfect example of road engineering skill extant. 

But a mere road is not all. Such a surface easily can be 
made almost anywhere in the United States. Its fame is being 
spread by all who have been fortunate enough to traverse its 
pavement, and who have viewed its rugged frame from many 
points of vantage, or gazed up and down the mighty Columbia 
and over into the mountains of the state of Washington for a 
distance of sixty or eighty miles, and sometimes for greater 
distances. No one who has seen it will ever forget. Time can 
not erase from memory its magnificent and rugged beautv. 
It will remain with one forever, as a beautiful dream. 

I wish I could “begin at the beginning” and tell the early 
history of travel along the banks of the Columbia, of the early 
means of communication between the wonderful Willamette 
Valley and the great “Inland Empire” east of the Cascades; 
of the hardships endured by those splendid men and women, 
who, heeding the stories of Lewis and Clark, wended their way 
from the eastern country, and pioneered for the generation 
of today. It is a tale filled with romance, with suffering and 
hardship, but nevertheless replete with incidents showing the 
fortitude and faith of the early pioneers, justified, as time has 
proved, and as is evidenced in the magnificent development of 
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full story, so I will leap over time, as it were, to the beginning 
of work on the wonderful highway, no longer a dream of the 
dim future, hut a reality of the present, a thing tangible, an 
object attained. 

Actual work on the Columbia River Highway was begun in 
August of 1913, when the county commissioners of Multnomah 
county (Portland) engaged Samuel C. Lancaster, a noted 
engineer, to make surveys for a road to run from Portland to 
the eastern line of Multnomah county- Mr. Lancaster, anti¬ 
cipating the Panama-Pacific Exposition, sought to have the 
fifty-mile stretch of road completed before the great move¬ 
ment to San Francisco, a fair portion of which Portland ex¬ 
pected to get, either coming from or going to the exposition. 
Mr. Lancaster and the county commissioners decided that the 
best modern practice should be followed in building a road 
suited to the times, the traffic and the place, such a road to 
have a minimum width of twenty-four feet, w r ith extra width 
on all curves, no radius less than one hundred feet, and a 
maximum grade of five per cent. 

The work in Multnomah county was accomplished at a cost 
of $1,500,000 and Mr. Lancaster had the satisfaction of wit¬ 
nessing the official opening on July 6, 1915. 

The Pacific Highway, extending from Portland to the north¬ 
ern California line, where it connects with the Pacific Highway 
of California aptly has been named the “Road of Three 
Nations,” for the reason that it connects British Columbia 
with the three Pacific Coast states and extends into Mexico, 
giving tourists one of the longest continuous, and one of the 
most beautiful, highways in the world. As the longest interna¬ 
tional highway, when fully completed, it will afford a run of 
over two thousand miles on hard-surfaced roads, through 
scenery rarely to be had, especially that portion of the road 
which passes through Northern California. 

The completed Pacific Highway will be the principal north 
and south unit of a splendid system of roads now being con¬ 
structed on the Pacific Coast and will be the key route to a 
related system of highways which will bind the far west in a 
manner undreamed of a few years ago, opening Up to the 
tourist a treasure house of scenic attractions not to be found 
elsewhere in this country. 

There is now being organized in Oregon another north and 
south highway, a skyline roadway on the east side of the 
Cascades, following as nearly as possible the high points in 
that beautiful range of mountains, and extending, as is pro¬ 
posed, from the Mt. Hood Loop to be constructed around Mt. 
Hood, extending south and connecting a series of beautiful 
mountain spots, lakes and streams, tapping the wonderful 
Crater Lake region, and thence on to connect with one of the 
arms of the Pacific Highway. The Cascade highway plan will 
not be consummated for several years, but it is another indica¬ 
tion of Oregon’s determination to have within its borders one 
of the finest highway systems in the United States. 

But to return to Oregon’s Pacific Highway. This road will 
be approximately 360 miles in length. The plans of the State 
Highway Commission contemplate the practical completion of 
hard-surfacing the roadway by the late summer of next year, 
and those portions not hard-surfaced will be put in fine condi¬ 
tion for driving, preliminary to paving. It is expected that of 
the sections unpaved for this season’s travel, there will not be 
over twenty miles of road not drivable at high speed. 

The Pacific Highway passes through legions of diversified 
scenery, meandering through highly cultivated farm and or¬ 
chard sections, frequently varied by long stretches of rugged 
scenery, it offers features of remarkable interest to the tourist. 
Following the delightful Willamette on the north, with its 
great farming regions and heavily timbered sections, the High¬ 


way strikes the beautiful Umpqua Valley with an ever- 
changing panorama of charming valleys, timbered mountains 
and turbulent streams, only to burst, farther to the south, into 
the attractive Rogue River section, where here is repeated, only 
perhaps in larger and more heroic degree, the beauties of the 
Umpqua. 

The Rogue River Valley without doubt is one of the most 
beautiful of Pacific Coast sections, leading as the Highway 
does, through a region of diversified farms and great areas 
of highly cultivated orchards and vineyards, nestVd among 
the encircling foothills with distant snow-capped peaks to 
enliven the panorama. 

From Grants Pass the tourist has access to the bewitching 
“Marble Halls of Oregon,” said by many to excel in granduer 
the famous caves of Kentucky. The side trip from Grants 
Pass takes one through a charming region forty-five miles 
southwesterly to the caves, which are in one of the national 
monument reserves. All but twelve miles of this journey can 
be made by automobile, thence on foot or on horseback into 
the heart of rugged mountains. In this connection it may be 
stated that arrangements are being made to build this year a 
good auto road to the Caves, thus obviating the inc incon¬ 
veniences of the twelve-mile jaunt over the trail. However, it 
is not certain that the road can be completed for this season’s 
travel. 

The mysteries of the “Marble Halls” are said never to 
have been fully explored, but suffice to sav that for grandeur 
the hundreds of rooms and apartments which make up the 
great halls have few equals in the world. The great marble 
pillars, the beautifully tinted walls and ceilings, painted bv 
the greatest of artists, Nature, and the flowing of subter 
ranean streams, go to make this spot a magnet of rare at¬ 
traction. 

From Medford is found the most easily traveled road to the 
famed Crater Lake, the most beautiful mountain lake in the 
world. This enchanting objective of the tourist is, as its name 
implies, a circular lake deep in the crater of an extinct volcano. 
The lake is six miles in diameter and is surrounded by a rim- 
wall two thousand feet above its irridescent waters. “Crater 
Lake blue” is not a misnomer. The waters of the lake appear 
as blue as indigo, changing constantly into varied opalexcent 
shades which hold the viewer spellbound. Crater Lake is the 
choicest of Oregon’s wonderful collection of scenic gems, and 
though its fame is of comparative recent birth, tourists and 
scientists from all over the worl dare coming in greater 
numbers each year to view its marvels. 

The Pacific Highway in Oregon is becoming more and more 
popular. The splendid camping grounds and parks at Ash¬ 
land, the wonderful orchards of the Rogue and Umpqua 
Valleys, the numerous fishing streams, the great areas of 
splendid timber, the beauties of the Willamette Valley, all 
serve to make wonderful this great north and south highway 
through Oregon. 

At intervals throughout the trip the sightseer gazes upon 
numerous snow-capped mountains, including Mt. Shasta, Mt. 
McLoughlin, Three-Fingered Jack, Mt. Jefferson and finally 
beautiful Mt. Hood. 

The Pacific Highway and the Columbia River Highwav last 
year attracted to Oregon thousands of tourists who had never 
before been in this state, and the indications are that the 
summer of 1920 will see traffic over these great roads trebled 
or quadrupled over the traffic of the 1919 season. 

Arrangements are being made adequately to mark all Ore¬ 
gon roads. By summer of this year the Pacific Highway, and 
all by-roads, will be plainly designated, and every precaution 
will be taken to make travel easy and pleasant. 


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COVEY MOTOR CAR COMPANY 

HOWARD COVEY, President 
Twenty-first and Washington Streets 

Cadillac Eight and Dodge Automobile, and Dodge Commercial Truck Agency 

for Portland and Vicinity 

1%/TR. COVEY has one of the most complete automobile plants in the Northwest 
and under one roof has not only his selling organization, but a garage, shop, 
paint shop and trim shop. 

His reputation for service and fair dealing among his customers and his com¬ 
petitors alike is second to none in the entire Northwest. One of the first men to get 
into the automobile business, he lias successfully weathered all of the storms which 
have beset the business of marketing automobiles during the years since it first 
started. 


NORTHWEST AUTO COMPANY 

FRED W. VOGLER, President 
Alder and Chapman Streets 

Mormon 34, Cole 8, Dort and Reo Automobile, and Bethlehem and Reo Truck Agency 
for Oregon, Washington and part of Idaho 

T HE NORTHWEST AUTO COMPANY, one of the pioneer companies in the 
city of Portland, is the largest distributors of motor cars and trucks on the 
Pacific Coast and occupies three floors of a large brick structure remodeled for its 
needs two years ago. The president and founder, Mr. Vogler, started in the trans¬ 
portation business in the early days in the Panhandle of Idaho and when the auto 
first became practical, lie came to Portland and started to sell them. He is known 
from coast to coast among the automobile fraternity. W. C. McCallum is managing 
the firm. 


TAYLOR MOTOR CAR COMPANY 


H. C. TAYLOR, Manager 
Twelfth and Flanders Streets 


Day-Elder Truck Agency for Oregon and Southwest Washington 


T HE DAY-ELDER truck selling for a medium price has made great strides in 
the state of Oregon under the distribution plan of the company which pioneered 
the line in the state. The company operates a complete service station and repair 
shop in connection with its sales agency and has had trouble in getting sufficient 
trucks to fill its orders. Mr. Taylor, the head of the company, is an aggressive young- 
man with experience which is coming in handy in putting over his line of trucks. 


FIELDS MOTOR CAR COMPANY 

LeROY FIELDS, Manager 
Fourteenth and Alder Streets 

Chevrolet Automobile and Chevrolet Truck Agency for Portland and Vicinity, as 
JVell as Territory out of The Dalles 

T HE FIRM started under the name of Regner & Fields with headquarters at 12 
Grand avenue on the East Side. The business grew until the location was too 
small to accommodate the growing trade. A. W. Regner was bought out by Arthur 
L. and LeRoy Fields, who then moved to the West Side in 1919, to a new two-story 
building erected especially for them. It is considered one of the most attractive 
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ARCHER & WIGGINS 

E. Ii. WIGGINS, Manager 
Sixth and Oak Streets 


Automobile Accessories and Diamond Tire Agency for Oregon and Washington 

T^HE ACTIVE management of the business is in the hands of E. R. Wiggins, 
and he has gathered around him a corps of efficient helpers and another corps of 
efficient salesmen who are thoroughly sold on the products which the firm sells and are 
daily expanding the firm’s sphere. 

The company has now under course of construction a modern building at the corner 
of Park and Couch streets which when occupied will permit the firm to get into the 
strictly wholesale distribution of Diamond tires and auto accessories. 


OLDSMOBILE COMPANY OF OREGON 

EDA ARD E. COHEN, Vice-president and Manager 
Broadway and Couch Streets 

Oldsmobile Six, Oldsmobile Eight Automobile, and Oldsmobile Economy Truck 
Agency for Oregon and Southxvest Washington 

'C' E. COHEN was one of the first men to venture on the sea of auto sales; in fact, 
Ik was one of the first men to race one of the old one-cylinder affairs in the early 
days. He has stuck to it through thick and thin alone, until a few vears ago, his 
brother Arnold came with him to help trim the sails of the good ship Oldsmobile. 
The only trouble the young men have had is to obtain sufficient ears to supply 
the demand. 




LEWIS E. OBYE MOTORS COMPANY 

LEW IS E. OBYE, Manager 
Broadway at Couch Streets 

Standard Eight, Patterson Six and Lorraine Four Automobile Agency for Oregon 

and Southwest Washington 

j|/TR. OBYE, formerly a salesman in the employ of a local company, demonstrated 
his ability to such an extent that he decided that he should get into the business 
himself. He started by establishing a used car business on the east side of the 
river, where through a campaign of advertising and salesmanshin he soon established 
a reputation for selling all of the used cars on which he could lav his hands. In 1918 
he took oil the distribution of the Patterson and has added his other lines as the pro¬ 
duction of the several factories would permit them to open up the Western territory 
served by Portland. 


A. M. BEAVER MOTOR CAR COMPANY 

A. M. BEAVER, President 
Twelfth and Alder Streets 

Columbia Six and Maibohn Six Automobile Agency for Oregon and 
Southwest Washington 

M R. BEAVER was formerly manager for another automobile agency in Portland 
where lie demonstrated his ability to handle men and to market automobiles. In 
1918 he took the agency at The Dalles for the concern for which he worked and 
later decided to branch out for himself. He went East and chose the two lines he 
now sells and is selling more cars than he can obtain from his factories. He has re¬ 
cently leased half of the new building at Twelfth and Alder streets which he is 
devoting to a salesroom and service station for his lines. 























































































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TWIN STATES MOTOR CAR COMPANY 

E. R. MURPHY, President 
Sixteenth and Alder Streets 

Chandler and Cleveland Sir Automobile Agency for Oregon and Southwest Washington 

A H. KNAUS formed the present company two years ago to handle the Chandler 
* and when the Cleveland was put on the market also took this car on. Mr. Knaus 
sold out to Mr. Murphy several months ago and the latter is now the sole owner of 
the business with William Byrne as salesmanager. Their factory allotment has been 
increased several times due to the demand for the cars which they sell. The company 
has leased the northwest corner of Nineteenth and Washington streets which is now 
being remodeled to suit their needs. When completed it will be one of the most con¬ 
venient of any of the establishments along upper auto row. 


D. C. WARREN MOTOR CAR COMPANY 

W. R. DeLAY, President 
58 North Twenty-third Street 

J'elie Sid', Peerless Eight, Allen Four Automobile and Velie Truck Agency for Oregon, 
Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho 

O RIGINALLY started by D. C. Warren, the D. C. Warren Motor Car Company 
has made great strides in the past few years and now has a branch at Spokane 
for the handling of the Eastern Washington business and that coming from Northern 
Idaho. W. R. DeLay bought the interest of I). C. Warren after the latter went to 
the service of Uncle Sam in the aviation department. W. It. Stine is still a partner of 
Mr. DeLay in the business, having charge of the Spokane branch. 


ATTERBURY TRUCK SALES COMPANY 

E. H. NASH, President 


3T3 Oak Street 

<w Six Automobile oud AUeUmr, and Stuart Truck Agcncg for Oregon aud 

Southwest Washington 

MR- NASH was a ^“ne^ 

owi bLL«r'Th“" Atterbury and Stewart trucks sold the las, two years 
shows that he was correct in his surmise. 


E. D. VANDERSAL 

E. D. VANDERSAL, Owner 
North Eighth and Burnside Streets 

Locomobile Automobile, Rilcer and Four Wheel Drive I ruck Agency jot Oiegon 
and Southwest Washington, and Manufacturer of Karavan Truck 

M R VANDERSAL until several months ago handled the Garford truck for the 
state of Oregon and Southwest Washington, but decided that he would relin¬ 
quish the selling right to this truck for the manufacture of the Karavan, which he 
designed and is manufacturing here in Portland at the present time. I he truck is 
at present built at the Hesse-Martin Iron Works here, but a new factory is to be 
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GARY COAST AGENCY 

H. M. CRAMBLITT, Manager 
71 Broadway 

Gary Truck Agency for Oregon and Southwest Washington 

lyfR CRAMBLITT has worked up a business with the Gary truck whicli is second 
to none in volume with the Gary factory. One of the recent accomplishments 
ot the truck was the winning of an order for six trucks purchased by the city of 
I ortland tor use in the fire department, and on which have been mounted tire appar¬ 
atus. The Gary truck won the order through its performance. So impressed was 
Peter McIntosh, city purchasing agent, with the truck that he has purchased an 
interest in the firm. 


AUTO SALES COMPANY 

PAUL STAIGER, Manager 
Ninth and Couch Streets 

Auburn Automobile and Ace 1 ruck Agency for Oregon and Southwest Washington 

pAUL STAIGER originally started in the business as an auto painter, which 
■*- business he still conducts in the upper story of the garage where is located his 
selling agency for the Auburn, and the Ace truck. Mr. Staiger attends only to the 
wholesaling ot the cars, the retail department being under the supervision of Louis 
N on Klein, one ot the oldest men in point of service along the row. 


WESTERN MOTOR SALES COMPANY 

J. C. OSLER, President 
30 Grand Avenue 

“Bell Four” Agency for Oregon and Southwestern Washington 

ll/TR- OSLER started with Charles Palul in the used car business two years ago and 
last Fall took over the agency for the “Bell Four” and since that time has made 
a record number of sales. The company has erected a new building for a salesroom, 
shop and service station which is one of the finest on the East Side of the river. 


GARFORD OREGON MOTOR SALES COMPANY 

J. A. HALEY, Sales Manager 
Eighth and Davis Streets, North 

Gar ford Truck Agency for Oregon and Southwest Washington 

1VTR- CORNEOOT was in the shipbuilding business with T. M. Geogehegan as his 
manager. J. A. Haley was also in his employ. During the war the concern 
made a record with the government in supplying the orders given them. With the 
cessation of hostilities Mr. Corn foot organized the present company and took in 
E. N. Wheeler, a well-trained financial and business man, as secretary-treasurer. 
I he company has already established a splendid reputation among the trade and 
truck buyers. Mr. Geogehegan is vice-president and general manager, and Mr. Halev 
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A. C. STEVENS 

A. C, STEVENS, Manager 
527 Washington Street 

Winton Six and Haynes Six Automobile Agency for Oregon and Southwest Washington 

A C. STEVENS formerly was the local manager for the Winton Motor Car Com- 
-£*-• pany with a location on upper Twenty-third street, but finally took advantage 
of the opportunity to take on the Winton line for the state on his own hook. Later 
he was given the franchise to sell Haynes cars. Mr. Stevens has established a reputa¬ 
tion for square dealing which is being reflected in the large number of cars he 
has sold. 


DENBY MOTOR TRUCK CO. OF NORTHWEST 

R. J. MONROE, Manager 
Tenth and Davis Streets 

Denby Truck Agency for Oregon and Southwest Washington 

M R. MONROE was formerly Western representative for the Denby Company 
and became so “sold" on the product which he was selling in a wholesale way 
that he decided to apply to the company for the management of the local branch 
which the company estbablished to enable it to give Denby users factory service 
on parts and attention. 

That the business has prospered under Mr. Monroe’s management is evidenced 
by the large number of trucks which he has sold and the further fact that he has 
just moved into a new building erected especially for the business. 




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J. H. GRAHAM MOTOR CAR COMPANY 

J. H. GRAHAM, President and Manager 
Tenth Street Near Stark 

Case Six, Davis Six, Moore Thirty Automobile Agency for Oregon and 
Southwest Washington 

HE COMPANY has recently moved into its new building erected with an eve to 


(nearly all at retail) 100 Case cars in the first year of his business in the automobile 
line and has established a reputation for giving service and making friends among 
those with whom he comes in contact in a business way. 

Mr. Graham has associated with him his two sons, Ward and Harold A third son 
lias gone into business for himself with headquarters for the Crow Elkhart car in 
the same building. 


HOWARD AUTOMOBILE COMPANY 

GEO. W. DEAN, Portland Manager 
11th and Davis Streets 

Buick 6 automobile agency for Oregon and Southwest Washington 

jV/TR. DEAN’S principle trouble the past few years has been to obtain enough 
1V1 cars to supply the orders which he continually has on the books. 1 hrough 
Mr Dean’s management the Buick car’s reputation for performance and the service 
behind it has been held on a par with the best Buick agencies m the entire country. 


























































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BALLOU & WRIGHT 

C. F. WEIGHT, Manager 
Broadway and Oak Streets 

Automobile Accessories Sold Throughout Oregon and Washington 

"DALLOU & WRIGHT is one of the largest distributors of automobile accessories 
in the West. The concern has a branch at Seattle, Washington. Its traveling 
men thoroughly cover the entire territory. The concern has the distribution for the 
Racine tire and is agent for the Bosch magneto. They also carry a full line of bicy¬ 
cles and sundries. As soon as their new building on Tenth and Flanders is completed 
the firm will do a strictly wholesale business. At present it does a retail business as 
well, but this will be discontinued. 



M’CRACKEN MOTOR CAR COMPANY 

P. McCRACKEN, Manager 
Fourteenth and Burnside Street 

Premier and American Beauty Six Automobile and Commerce, Chicago, J im and 
Mooreland Truck Agency for Oregon and Southwest JVashington 

T'HE COM PAN A ’S business lias increased so rapidly that it has been found neces- 
■*- sary to erect another building more modern in its equipment and this is expected 
to be ready in a few weeks. It is located at f ourteenth and Morrison streets, where 
the company will have one of the most modern establishments in the city. The com¬ 
pany has been in business for years and has established a reputation for square deal¬ 
ing. Recently it has taken on the Premier and is selling these cars as fast as they 
can get them from the factory. As with its other lines, the only thing which is hin¬ 
dering them is the lack of shipments from the various factories which they represent. 


Sayers Pacific Motor Car Company 

C. C. DAEHLER, Sales Manager 

Sayers Six and Jackson Six Automobile, Sayers Automobile Funeral Car and Jackson 
Four-Wheel Drive Truck Agency for Oregon and Southwestern JVashington 

T'HE new two-story home of the Sayers Pacific Motor Car Company is indicative 
of prosperity. The greatest problem confronted by the company, according to 
Air. Daehler, is getting more cars and trucks. A modern garage is operated in con¬ 
nection with the business, and a beautiful sales room is maintained, fronting on 
Washington street. 


Thomas A. Sweeney 

HOMAS A. SWEENEY, Republican candidate for Con¬ 
gress, has numberless friends among ex-service men all 
over the Northwest. Air. Sweeney is in the general contracting 
business. He gave up his work to enter the service, being 
among the first to volunteer. He spent two years overseas, 
being a captain in the engineers’ corps. Previously he had 
served as a lance corporal, going to Alexico at the time of 
the skirmish there. 


Goodyear Rubber Company 

'T'HE Goodyear Rubber Company is one of America’s oldest 
concerns, having been in business continuously since 1853. 
The local branch was opened in August, 1893. The Goodyear 
Rubber Company handles Revere tires, aside from a full line 
of mechanical rubber goods, including footwear and clothing. 
L. C . Garrigus is Northwest manager, having been connected 
with the company locally since 1897. The local offices of the 
company are located at Fourth and Pine streets. 



Deer Island Logging Company 

'T'HE Deer Island Logging Company is a substantial factor 
in the great lumber industry of Oregon. The company’s 
offices are in the Yeon building. Edward Alurphv is general 
manager. Other officers are C. S. Shank and C. C. Clapperton. 


Golf balls are Edward Cookingham’s hobby. Not that he 
plays golf, either, as some of his friends, say that he doesn’t, 
but the dictionary says that a hobby is “something which a 
person pursues with zeal.” And Air. Cookingham sure does 
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PORTLAND PRESS CLUB 

Officers, Board and Committees, 1920 


O. C. Leiter. 

James H. Cassell. 

Fred L. Boai.t. 

Charles T. Hoge. 


. President 

. First Vice President 

. Second Vice President 

. Third Vice President 

A. E. Campbell. 


Charles N. Ryan. 

Lawrence Dinneen. 

A. E. Foss.. 

Wm. FI. Galvani. 

. Manager 


. Secretary 

..Assistant Secretary 

. Treasurer 

.Librarian-Historian 


Board of Managers 

The Above Officers and the Following Members Constitute the Board: 
George U. Piper Tom W. Gerber 
H. T. Hopkins Robert E. Smith 

Fred J. Brady C. W. Myers 

Harry Marcus 


Executive Committee 
Wm. H. Galvani, Chairman 

Tom W. Gerber Lawrence Dinneen 


House Committee 
Harry Marcus, Chairman 
Geo. U. Piper A. E. Foss 


Entertainment Committee 
Tom W. Gerber, Chairman 

Fred J. Brady James II. Cassell 

Chas. W. Myers 


Membership Committee 
H. T. Hopkins, Chairman 

C. W. Myers Lawrence Dinneen 

Publicity Committee 
Ben H. Lampman, Chairman 
Ward Irvine E. W. Jorgenson 

Frank J. Bartholomew 


O. C. Leiter. 

Tom W Gerber. 

Frank Bartholomew. 

J. F Langner. 

Frank Ira White. 

Fred L. Boalt. 

Fred J. Brady. 

James D. Olson. 

Chas. W. Myers. 

E. W. Jorgenson. 

Lawrence Dineen. 

Claude M. Bristol... 

H. W. Lyman. 

C. M. Rynerson. 

Sydney B. Vincent.. 

Eugene E. Smith. 

Neil McCall. 

H H. Perry. 

A. S. Johnson. 

F. O. Schroeder. 

Thos. McCusker. 


Industrial Committee 

. Brownsville Woolen Mills 

. Arcady Press 

. Portland Telegram 

. Orerion Journal 

. Momma Oregonian 

. Portland News 

. Publicity 

. Morning Oregonian 

. Portland, Telegram 

... Portland News 

. Oregon Journal 

. Freman-Smith-Camp Co. 

. Morning Oregonian 

. Oregon Labor Press 

. Chamber of Commerce 

. Labor Opinion 

. Portland Telegram 

. Morning Oregonian 

. Oregon Journal 

.. Portland Telegram 

. Chamber of Commerce 


•T. C. Ainsworth 

W. H. Daughtry 

Wm. Albers 

M. J. Delahunt 

Harrison Allen 

F. S. Doernbecker 

W. C. Aivord 

Fred A. Doty 

N. E. Ayer 

Frank E Dooly 

W. B. Aver 

Chas. K. Early 

B. C, Ball 

Watson Eastman 

M. C. Bunfield 

E. Ehrman 

R. Lea Barnes 

Herman Enke 

James T. Baron 

H. R. Everding 

W. B. Beebe 

J. D. Farrell 

S. Benson 

J. P. Finley 

C. L. Boss 

W. B. Fletcher 

J. R. Bowles 

L. Gerlinger 

W. C. Bristol 

Dr. A. J. Giesy 

Philip Buchner 

R. L. Glisan 

John H. Burgard 

Franklin T. Griffith 

F. C, Burrell 

E. V. Hauser 

W. F. Burrell 

Russell Hawkins 

Col. H. C. Cabell 

Jos. M. Healy 

Wm. M. Cake 

Fred Hesse 

J. E. Cameron 

L W. Hill 

D. W. Campbell 

Samuel Hill 

Chas. H. Carey 

F. V. Holman 

W. A. Carter 

M. H. Houser 

A. D. Charlton 

J. O. Hoyt 

R. N. Childs 

K. D. Inman 

L. G. Clarke 

Edwin C. Johnson 

0. M. Clark 

Thos. B. Kay 

C. C. Colt 

George H. Kellj r 

Edw. Cookingham 

F. P. Kendall 

Elliott R. Corbett 

Peter Kerr 

Dr. C. W. Cornelius 

F. C. Knapp 

Wm. Cornfoot 

F. L. Knight 


LIFE MEMBERS 


Fred A. Kribs 

Oscar Overbeck 

Chas. T. Ladd 

W. J. Phillips 

J. Wesley Ladd 

A. R. Porter 

Wm. M. Ladd 

Johnston P. Porter 

F. W. Leadbetter 

Dr. D. H Rand 

Tom Lewis 

Sanderson Reed 

L. Allen Lewis 

Wm. E. Robertson 

A. J. L.-wthwaite 

Dr. A. E. Rockev 

B. M. Lombard 

H. A. Sargent 

E. E. Lytle 

E. C. Shevlin 

R. F. Lytle 

L. J. Simpson 

Kenneth A. J. MacKenzie 

Dr. A. C. Smith 

W. R. MacKenzie 

Jay Smith 

R. L. Macleay 

A. C. Spencer 

Wm. MacMaster 

R. N. Stanfield 

Wm. A. MacRae 

F. S. Stanley 

F. C. M ilpas 

Robert L. Stevens 

A. B. Manley 

Nathan Strauss 

Chas. L. McNary 

R. E. Strahorn 

S. M. Mears 

Geo. M. Sullivan 

Julius L. Meier 

Guy W. Talbot 

R. B. Miller 

John Tait 

A. L. Miller 

Francis C. Tilley 

John P. Miller 

D. W. Wakefield 

Samuel Morrow 

Frank M. Warren 

Fred W. Mulkey 

L. J. Wentworth 

0. A. Neal 

Paul Wessinger 

J. B. Neuhausen 

J. E. Wheeler 

Edward Newberger 

R. B. Mil cox 

J. P. O’Brien 

Elwood Wiles 

Wm. P. Olds 

Geo. M. Wilson 

Emery Ohnstead 

Holt C. Wilson 

Conrad P. Olson 

M. C. Woodard 

D. C. O’Reilly 

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Chas. R. Alexander 
L. B. Baketel 
Frank J Bartholomew 
Frank W Barton 
Wm. C. Benbow 
George Bertz 
E. N. Blythe 
Fred L. Boalt 
Fred J. Brady 
C. M. Bristol 
Hirsch H. Bromberg 
E. C. Brownlee 
Jos. Burke 
A. E. Campbell 
Herbert T. Campbell 
Will Gage Carey 
Jos. H. Cassell 
C. C. Chapman 
Charles O. Chatterton 
Frank A. Clawoe 
Frank Coffinberry 
Hymen H. Cohen 
John Connell 
George M. Cornwall 
Walton F. Cornwel’ 
George W. Cowne 
Alfred D. Cridge 
W. J, Cuddy 
John H. Curry 
W. H. Daly 
Marshall N. Dana 
Linton L Davies 
H. Lynn Davis 
Lawrenoe Dinneen 
W. D. B. Dodson 
John T. Dougall 
R. G. Duncan 
Fred A. Dunham 
Fred C. Dunham 
J. R. Dunlop 
C. D. Emmons 
Alfred John England 


N. Ray Alber 
James F. Alexander 
Henry C. Allen 
W. X. Amos 
T. W. Anderson 
A. G. Atwood 
E. G. Ausplund 
Oliver Perry Averv 
Alfred A. Ava 
A. A. Bailey' 

Geo. L. Baker 
Jack Baker 
Jos. L. Barber 
J. A. Barbour 
Will H. Bard 
A. L. Birbur 
Ray Barkhurst 
W. H. Barton 
Henry Bauer 
J. C. Bayer 
Jonathan Bourne 
Chas. C. Beehtold 
Earl C. Becker 

L. E. Bender 

M. S. Bennett 
A. S. Benson 
Chas. C. Benson 
Robert L. Benson 
Dr. L. H. Bequeath 
Theo. Bergmann 

A. G. B Atman 
V. C. Birney 
Marr Bisaillon 
Roy T. Bishop 
James H. Black 
H. J. Blaesing 
William Blitsch : 

J. W. Boisoe 

Jay Bowcrman 

Dr. Conrad H. Bowman 


ACTIVE 

John L. Etheridge 
A. E. Foss 
W. H. Galvani 
Arthur M Geary 
Tom Gerber 
R. Gettings 
Earl R. Goodwin 
Saul Haas 
Richard O. Hansen 
C. F. Hanssen 
C. F. Harbaugh 
H. S. Harcourt 
De Witt I,. Harry 
Harry G Haugsten 
David B Hazen 
John Henry Hedherg 
Will F. Hessian 
A. A. Hickey 
L. K. Hodges 
C. T. Huge 
H. W. Hogue 
H. T. Hopkins 
Lester W. Humphreys 
Harold E. Hunt 
C. M. Idleman 
Ward A. Irvine 
A. C. Jackson 
Leon S. Jackson 
P. L. Jackson 
L H. Jernigan 
A. S. Johnson 

E. W. Jorgenson 
tV. B. Kauffman 
Carl S. Kelty 

A. E. Kern ' 

W. S. K'lgour 
J. M. Knight 
Ben H. Lampman 
J. Langner 

O. C. Leiter 
L. L. Levings 

X. J. Levinson 

ASSOCIATE 

R. G. Brand 

Dr. Goe. S. Breitling 

F. M. Brooks 
R. E. Brooks 
John Brown 
Vernon Brown 
Walter W. Bruce 
J. V. Burke 

Dr. C. W. Burtt 
E. E. Cable 
Alva D. Cage 
R. tV. Cahill 
A. C. Callan 
A. F. Carraza 
Dr. .Tas. FI. Carrico 
H. V. Carrington 
Vrehy B Carter 

L. E. Carter 

M. D. Carter 
Chas. E. Cassel 
Alick Chalmers 
H. D. Chambers 
T. FI. Chambers 
Dr. It. J. Chipman 
X. X. Chusby 

A. E. Clark' 

A. G. Clark 
IJ. Fred Claussen 
Harry R. Cliff 
Ralph A. Coan 
D. Salis Cohen 
Bartlett Cole 
Frank T. Collier 
J. W. Collins 
S. T. Conlan 
H. J. Cress 
C. T. Crosby 
Halph Crothers 
Ralph Crvsler 
tV. C. Cuibertson 
C. J. Cummings 


MEMBERS 
G. H. Lewis 
Fred Loekley 
Harold W. Lyman 
J. M. Mackey 
Harry Marcus 
Claud Mc.Colloch 
James H. MeCool 
Frank ,T. McGettig.an 
G. A. McGranahan 
C. V. McMonagle 
F. D. McXaughton 
C. E. McShane 
O. C. Merrick 
Thomas Milburn 
M. E. Milev 
Chas. J. Moody 
Chas. tV. Myers 
LeRoy Xorr 
James Olson 
Clifford T. Owen 
Philip H Parrish 
tV. H. Perkins 
Herbert H. Perry 

W. A. Petit 
tV. T. Phillips 
Stanhope Pier 
Edgar E Piper 
Geo. U. Piper 
Ernest C Potts 
George Prichard 
Robert Lee Ringer 
Austin B Richeson 
Albert J. Robinson 

X. H. Robinson 
J. R. Rogers 

A. A. Rosenthal 
R. A. Rostad 
Chas. X. Ryan 
C. M. Rvnerson 
Walter Bradford Schade 
John H. Scott 

R. R. Sharp 

MEMBERS 
M. B. Currie 
J. F. Daly 
F. H. Dammasch 
Dr. J. H. Davis 

I. X. Day 
Arthur C Dayton 
Chas. J. Dean 

M. G. Denton 

Dr. R. S. De Ormond 

S. H. Dewart 

J. W. DeYoung 
Wm. Dixon 

R. P. Doane 

Alfred F. Dobson 

Dr. James F. Donnelly 

I. . L. Dougan 
A. W. Douglas 
Charles J Dovden 
Edward H. Downard 
A. E. Doyle 
Frederick H. Drake 

J. F. Drake 
Sherman C. Draper 
J. H. Duncan 

A. L. Dundas 
Ralph R. Duniwav 
J. J. Dunning 
A. L. Dupuy 
Frank C. Egan 
Mason Ehrman 
G. Elinto 
Dr. O. W. Elliott 
tV. tV. Ely 
A. C. Emmons 
E. I.. E c tes 
Monroe G. Everett 
X. I. Farnsworth 
Dr. R. A. Fenton 
Albert B Ferrera 
Rev. M. L. Ferry 
W. F. Fiebig 


Ray Leon Shinault 
H. Showerman 
Claude L. Simpson 
Eugene E. Smith 
Robert E. Smith 
C. L. Starr 
Don Sterling 
John H. Stevenson 
Rex Stewart 
Win. P. Strandhorg 

C. A. Stuewe 
Arthur D. Sullivan 

D. C. Sullivan 
P. E. Sullivan 
J. F. Sutor 

A. M. Swartley 
Fred J. Taylor 
F. tV. Vincent 
Sydney B. Vincent 
Frank L. Waller 
John L. Wallin 
tV. F. Walton 
C. E. Warner 
Fred R. Waters 
A. E. Wellington 
R. B. Westcott 
Dudley F. Westler 
Mel Wharton 

L. R. Wheeler 
Frank Ira White 
Fred A. White 
Fred M. White 
r^. E. Whiting 
Abraham Shinlev V iede 

M. B. Wells 
Jonah B. Wise 
Robert Withrow 
Mark G. Woodruff 
Robert C. Wright 
C. K. Zilley 


Frank L. Finnell 
Jos. B. Finnegan 
Dr. E. Wesley Finzer 
Benj. H. Fisher 
J. J. Fitzgerald 
Dr. O. O. Fletcher 
E. E. Flint 
C. E. Force 
Seneca Fouts 

H. H. Freeman 
Julius C Friendly 
Chas. B. Frisbie 
E. R. Frymire 
James B Gape 
Tom Garland 

W. X. Gatens 
O. J. Gatzmyer 
Geo. tV. Gearhart 
Michael Georgia 
tV. H. Givens 
Rev. Elias Gj erding 
Walter B. Gleason 
J. Bruce Goddard 
Chas. S. Goodwin 
E. J. Gotthardt 
Hiram Gould 
S. J. Graham 
tV. Lee Gray 
Sali Gruenebaum 
Thomas G. Greene 

I. R. Greenfield 

J. P. G-iffin 
Lyman Griswold 
Jay S. Groo 
Philip C'-ossmeyer 
George G Guild 
Geo. B. Guthrie 
L. G. Haack 

D. D. Hall 
Geo. A. Hall 
G. E. Hnmaker 


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S. M. Hamby 
Dr. R. R. Hamilton 
Alfred A Hampson 
Frank C. Hanley 
John P. Hannon 

E. Hansen 
Bert Haney 
Ernest Hardy 
Roe Haroun 

Dr. Herman J. Harris 
J. W. Harrison 
P. Harrowitz 
J. Harold Hart 
Win. I. Harrison 
J. N. Hart 
Edward Hartford 
John H. Hartog 

M. D. Hawes 
Thomas A. Hayes 
Fred Heilig 
M. J. Helser 
Wilbur Henderson 
Geo. Earle Henton 
Frank J. Herman 
Oliver M Hickey 
M. C. Hickok 
Reginald T. T. Hicks 

F. H. Hildebrand 
Cbas. E. Hindman 
W. B. Hinson 

H. J. Hobart 

R. D. Hoffmire 
W. B. Holden 
Geo. F. Holman 
Mark FI olmes 
Wm. J. Holpa 

I. Holsman 

A. A. Hoover 

H. A. Houghtaling 
Rev. J. C. Hughes 
Wilson T. Hume 
Dr. W. J). Huntington 
H. C. Huston 

E. J. Hyland 

J. Bard Irwin 
Heber C Iverson 
Nelson R. Jacobson 
J. J. Jennings 
Fred Jensen 

C. J. Johnson 
Folger Johnson 

G. A. Johnson 
Arthur H. Johnston 
Hamilton Johnstone 
Arthur F. Jones 
Geo. W. Joseph 

G. G. Joyce 
Clarence F. Kahn 
LeRoy E. Keelev 
Dr. R. C. Kelsey 
James B Ken- 
Father Kiernan 
Geo. H. Killits 
Dr. A. E, King 
Tyson Kinsell 
Thos. W. Kirby 
Frank F. Korell 
Edward J. Kraenick 

S. E. Krohn 
John A. Laing 

C. W. Lamar 
Henry Lang 
L. Lang 
Louis Lang 
Lotus I.. Langley 

H. P. La Roche ' 

J. Fred Larsen 
George I awrence, Jr 
Wm. B. Layton 
John A. Lee 

F. J. Leber 

Dr. F. O. Lehman 
Geo. P. Lent 
Barge E. Leonard 
Frank J. Leonard 

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H. C. Lillagar 
Chas. Loeding 
John F. Logan 
Leroy Lomax 
Kelley Loe 

A. AT. Long 
Paul M. Long- 
Dr. J. L. Loomis 
Wm. P. Lord 
lulius Louisson 

A. J. Lustig 
M. ,T. Lynch 
M. M. Lyons 
Lewis A. McArthur 
Wallace McCa .111 ant 
M. G. M-Corkle 
Frank McCrillis 
John C. McCue 
Allen H. McCurtain 
Thomas McCusker 

F. C. McDougal 

E. C. McFarland 

A. ,T. McGuffev 
Stuart McGuire 
Ross McIntyre 
James FT McMenamen 
Wm. Me Murray 

W. D. McWaters 
W. F. Magill 

I. J. Mahoney 

E. A. Mann 
John D. Mann 
Thomas Mannix 
L. B. Markham 
Charles A. Marsch 
Dr. J. R. Marshall 
Dr. Ray W. Matson 
L, W. Matthews 
John A. Mears 
George A. Mercer 
.Tas. A. Merrimen 
Phil Metscham, Jr. 

B. Metzger 
O. W. Mielke 
Allen C. Miller 

Dr. Byron E. Miller 
Dr. C. 4. Miller 
Elman G Miller 
Herbert C. Miller 
John J. Miller 
Milton A. Miller 
Wm. A. Miller 
W. O. Milligan 
S. S. Montague 
Dr. A. W. Moore 

J. Stanford Moore 
Miguel Morales 
Karl P. Moran 
A. A. Morrison 
E. M. Morton 
Gus C. Moser 
Frank Motter 
Arthur I. Moulton 
Clarence E. Moulton 
A. A. Muck 

O. S. Murphy 
Coll V. Musgrave 
Arthur E. Myers 
Geo. L. Myers 
Geo. A. Natanson 

J. Emil Nelson 

J. Silford Nelson 
Edwin J. Neustadter 
Dr. C. C. Newcastle 
IT. B. Nicholas 
James Harvey Nixon 
W. C. North 
J. Willis Oberender 
Harvey O’Bryan 
Dr. G.' P. Olin 
Rev. E. S. Olsen 

P. G. Onstad 

I W. O’Rourke 

Kilmer Papst 

Dr. Harvey G. Parker 


Robt. N Parker 
Horace G. Parsons 
J. T. Pasquill 
P. C. Patterson 
W. M. Patterson 

D. A. Pattulo 
Walter O. Paulson 
Jos. A. 'Pettit 
S. C. Pier, Jr. 

Edward Allen Pierce 
Glen Pierce 

G. C. Pierce 
Fred W. Piper 

C. W. Piatt 

IT. F. Podgiiain 
J. Bruce Pol’warth 
David H Povey 
Dan E. Powers 

B. M. Price 

R. W. P-'ice 

L. M. Rames 
W. IT. Raymond 
Geo. E. Reed 

H. G. Reed 
A. Reinhart 
Leo Rieen 
Jesse J. Rich 
John Y. Richardson 
Alex J. Riddell 
Ben Riesland 

Capt. Frank M. Ring 
John C. Ritter 
Knud Roald 
W. A. Robb 

S. L. Roberts 
August Rosen 
Fred H. Rothchild 
J. M. Rvan 

T. G. Ryan 

A. H. Salomon 
Leslie L. Savage 
Geo. D. Schalk 
H. Guy Schneck 

C. G. Schneider 

D. A. O Schmitt 
Earl J. Seollard 
Eugene C. Scott 
Ben Selling 

F. S. Sever 

A. M. Shannon 
John N. Sharp 
Geo. S. Shepherd 
Chester A. Sheppard 
.T. W. Sherwood 
Rev. F. R. Sibley 
Donald A. Skene 
AT. D. Skinner 

B. J. Skulason 

Dr. Allen W. Smith 
Earl Smith 

G. N. Smith 
Theodore P. Smith 
Max Sommers 

Dr. F. W. Spaluding 
F rank A. Spencer 
Fred Spoeri 
Dr. C. E. Strafrin 
J. O. Stearns 
W. R. Stedman 

C. A. Stewart 
Clifford C, Stout 
A. C. Stahl 

J. P. Strand 
W. B. Streeter 
S. AT. Stryker 
C. G. Sutherland 

M. F. Swift 
Raymond E. Taylo - 
Hon. Geo. Tazwell 
Jos. N. Teal 

Geo. B. Thomas 

F. E. Thompson 
F. W. Thompson 
J. G. Torrance 
Arch J. Tourtellotte 
C. F. Townsend 


E. R. C. Toyer 

G. T. Trommald 
AT. S. U Ren 

P. W. Yogler 
Wm. A. Waldo 
Chas. D. Walker 

G. E. Watts 
Thomas Wynne Watts 

D. C. Wax 

A. M. Webster 

A. J. Welton 
Harvey ATells 

L. A. West, Jr. 

Dr. O. T. Wherry 
Calvin S. AThite 
Wm. AThitfield 

F. T. ATT cox 

M. O. Wilkins 
J. A. Wilkinson 
C. M. Will 

E. F. Williams 
John D. Williams 
R. E. Williams 
ATm. A. Williams 
Jacques AYillis 

H. S. Wilson 
John P. ATinter 
Dr. L. J. Wolf 

B. E. AT right 

Dr. Paul C. Yates 

Clarence J. Young 

O. B. Young 

ATm. Wallace Youngson 

Dr. F. J. Ziegler 

AT. LI. Ziegler 

N. A. Zollinger 
Frank E. Roles 
Victor Brandt 
J. AT. Ganong 

O. H. Tracey 
R. H. Bradley 
Clarence D. McPhail 

C. AT. Osborne 
A. M. Work 

F. N. Clark 
Alex Gevurtz 

Dr. S. C. Clocum 
F. N. Wirt 
R. P. Effinger 
N. M. Ungar 
F. M. Leeston-Smith 

E. H. East 
W. C. LuMalle 
AT. H. Cullers 
Geo. M. Allen 
Howard Evarts ATeed 
J. AT. Llewellyn 
■T. N. Edelfsen 

C. F. Avom 
Lewis E. Obye 
Milton I.. Gumbert 

D. N. Strowbridge 
C. AT. Hayhurst 
John A. Luckel 
Isadore Winkleman 
Geo. T. Moore 

M. L. Kline 

R. M. Davisson 
Ferdinand E. Reed 

H. E. Mooney 
Chas. B. Stetson 
Howard M. Covey 
J. A. Manning 

C. J. McCusker 
Hopkin Jenkins 
Herbert F. Jones 

E. E. Hall 

'I. AT. Salisbury 
Dr. D. O. Webster 
J. C. Lanpheir 

T. H. Edwards 
,ias. L. Conley 

S. B. Cooke 
E. G. Svigert 
John A. Collier 
Thos. D. Honeyman 


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H. O. Tenney 

H. (). Boynton 
Jas. P. Stapleton 

E. C. Habel 

Rev. Father Burke 
Harold W. A. Olson 
Sidney C. Rasmussen 
Fred Gronnert 

E. J. Mendenhall 

I. Kaufman 
Frank Nau 
Walt. M. Cook 

R. Z. Duke 

Dr. Clifford H. Moore 
Charles H. Thompson 

E. L. Barnes 
E. O. Mattern 
Cloyd Bates 

R. F. Wassell 
Cullen Bryant 
Aron Bernheim 

J. H. Joyce 

B. C. Darnall 

Dr. Millard C. Hornbrook 

Tom Tracey 

W. T. Ryan 

Sam F'laiow 

Percy F. Smith 

Charles A. Myers 

Paul H. Groat 

Oscar T. Olsen 

Peter B. McCraken 

.1. A. Cranston 

H. A. Rucker 

Arnold .F. Neate 

A. E. Peasley 

Dr. A. Laidlaw 

M. K. id edge 

Herbert J. Breeze 

Jesse McCord 

E. I.. Devereaux 
Cloyd B Baker 
W. F. Ineson 

S. A. Francis 
H. C. Jarvis 

F. W. Chausse 
W. C. h oertsch 
Wm. R. Bald 
J. A. Wiekman 
Simon Gevurtz 
.John Childs Ecoff 
H. W. Roberts 
Fred H. Kiser 
Roy A. Douglas 
Thos. H. Hurlburt 


Edw. D. Baldwin 
R. R. Butler 
Addison Bennett 

E. E. Brodie 
Arthur Oaylor 
J. S. Dillinger 
Bruce Dennis 
Colin V. Dyment 

F. H. Graves 


E. FI. Whitney 

F. C. Elliott 

G. F. Horn 
Ernest Crosby 
Ray B. Waldo 
J. J. Hamilton 
Samuel Olson 
Carl M. Little 

C. E. Cowdin 
Chas. E. Hill 
M. C. Plank 
Chas. E. Walters 

C. A. Magnuson 
Franklin O. Schroeder 
J. W. Bickford 

J. F. Elton 
Frederick E. Diemer 
Everett W. Fenton 

F. L. Wait 

Dr. R. M. Hood 

D. M. Short 
Wm. B. Ryan 
Albert Berger 
C. P. Wilden 
Chas. J. Allen 
Chas. M. Wilden 
C. E. Tronson 
Joe A. F.evy 

Geo. Arthur Brown 
C. D. D: vidson 
John R. Oatman 
Fred H. Cotter 
John G. Hatton 
R. El Allen 
W. E. Koster 
Howard F. Lauterette 
R. W. Hopkins 
Albert E. Wright 
J. W. David 
Henry L Lyons 
Geo. R. Tremblay 
James A. Malarkev 
W. S. B.ulley 

G. A. Searles 
Ray W. Myers 
C. S. Samuel 
Ira Haw'ey 
Madison L. Goff 
F. N. Beeson 
W. J. Maguire 
Walter R Dimm 

I. Aronson 

C. M. Hodges 
V. D. C Beach 
Martin I.eiser 

ACTIVE NON 

I. J. Gallagher 
C. M. Hyskell 

J. C. Hayter 
Cole Hofer 
Hal E. Hoss 
C. J. Jack 
Jos. H. Jordan 
Rex Lampman 
L. A. LeMiller 


J. P. Link 
Jesse R. Sharp 
Lyman R. Roberts 
Walter V. Spencer 
J. W. Kaufman 
Paul Dachsel 
C. J. Russell 

E. E. Broekney 
Dr. F. N. Sandifur 

T. B. Bid well 
W. M. Miller 
Robert D. Riordan 
George L Kempton 
L. A. Wiley 
Edwin B. Wheat 
Geo. H. Himes 
I). L. Blodgett 
Wm. T. Sexton 

H. W. Agar 
C. W. Sidence 
A. Mueller 
J. N. Lamoree 
Albert S. McIntyre 
T. H. Williams 
I Brunn 
E. E. Faville 
Aage Enna 

H. J. Langoe 
H. S. Swenson 

H. C. Reinhart 
W. M. Jackson 
Jesse N. Shainwald 
Henry D. Nave 
Melvin G. Winstock 

G. S. Smith 

Rov M. Heath 
Dr.' D. W Kolle 
Frank A. Sweeney 
A. A. Witham 
Edward A. MacLean 
Fred A. Armbuster 
E. C. Schmidt 
Arthur L. Smith 
Henry Berger, Jr. 

S. R. Hemphill 
Wm. J. Jacob 
Fred Dundee 
W. M. Macphail 
Manuel S. Cohn 
P. J. Brix 
Herbert M. Huff 

I. C. Sanford 
W. D. Pine 

Dr. E. Randolph Seely 
Alfred O. Mueller 

RESIDENT MEMBERS 

L. A. Long 
A. L. Lindbeek 
Edw. C. Luce 

J. W. Lyons 

C. N. McArthur 
Wm. A. Marshall 
A. L. Morris 
Chas. H. Oneil 
Lloyd Riches 


A. F. Hershner 

C. A. Puinton 
W. W. Bollatn 
W. L. Column 
J. L. Wright 
P. W. Wilson 
W. H. Guest 

D. A. Donelson 
Felix Friedlander 
Gust Nord 

C. W. Roberts 
C. A. Putnam 
Herbert B. Augur 
John C. Conrad 
N. W. Howard 
Henry Teal 
R. E.' Murphy 
M. H .Jones 
G. H. Heitkemper 

G. Walter Gates 
J. W. Vogan 

I, . D. Roberts 
W. W. Black 
Frank W Kamp 
F. N. Clark 
Elmer Brown 

L. A. Read 
E. O. Dueker 
John W. Kempker 

J. N. Waller 
Geo. C. Lord 

J. B. Fitzgerald 
Robert S. Gill 
A. Lee I ewis 
J. W. Stewart 

H. J. Stewart 
Godfrey Schwab 
Carl Gelman 

J. E. Harley 
W. R. Williams 
E. O. Shepherd 
A. J. Ivrantz 
D. F. Shope 

A. J. Prideaux 
W. C. Wilbourn 
Byron J. Clark 

B. E. Wadsworth 
Wm. A. Montgomery 
Trunezo Sugimura 

J. P. Hunter 
Chas. G. North 
Frank E Andrews 
A lbert Jourdan 
W. S. McHugh 


A. E. Scott 
N. Stevens 
Elmer L. Terrill 
J. D. Thominson 
Eric Wallin 
Clark Wood 
E. W. Wright 


Henry L.. Benson 
E. R. Budd 
J. Burdick Denton 

H. H. Corey 
Chauncey D. Butter 
W. B. Dennis 
Orton E. Goodwin 


ASSOCIATE NON-RESIDENT MEMBERS 


O. P. Hoff 
Chas. A. Jones 
Seymour Jones 
Merton W. Kidder 
Glen R. Metsker 

T. E. MeCroskey 
A. W. Norblad 


Ben W. Olcott 
Roy W. Pitner 
Martin Schacht 
C. Schuebel 
Geo. E. Streeter 
H. J. Schulderman 

F. C. Veal 


W. T. Vinton 
John M. Wall 
Paul B. Wallace 
Geo. W. Weeks 




TN the year of 1864 some fifty odd years ago Mr. H. Liebes 
established in the fur business, in a small way on the Paci¬ 
fic Coast, under the name of H. Liebes & Co. Today this 
company ranks among the largest and foremost furriers of the 
entire country, maintaining numerous trading stations in 
Alaska, Siberia and in other fur-bearing regions of the far 
north, including the famous Banks Land, a virgin trapping 
field opened up by this company. 

Large steam whalers are employed in carrying on their 
extensive fur business, making annual cruises to the various 
trading stations collecting furs. In many cases the natives 
bring their catches from three hundred to five hundred miles 
inland to meet these expeditions. Each annual cruise returns 
to the states with cargoes of furs amounting into the hun¬ 
dreds of thousands of dollars. Some of the finest pelts known 
have been brought out on these trips. T he finer grades are 
made up in H. Liebes & Co.’s own workshops for their high 
class trade. The balance goes to help supply the eastern 
markets. 

In addition to the fur business this company operates a 
chain of ready-to-wear stores on the Pacific Coast, supply¬ 
ing the better clientele with high class, fashionable modes for 
women and misses. Extensive offices are maintained in New 
York, Paris and London. 


The success of H. Liebes & Co. is contributed to the high 
standards of practice followed in conducting their business. 


Illustrated 

Top Left, Arctic Display 
Top Right, Arctic Display 
Center Left, Former Home 
Center Right, Present Home 
Bottom Left, French Room 
Bottom Right, Sales Room 


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JAHERAUTO SPRING* 

Quality and Service 



...". 

Largest Manufacturers 

28-30-32-34 North 15th Street 

and Stockers of Motor Car 

Phone Broadway 4006 

Springs in the West 


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Marshall 999 

Open from 7 A. M. till 9 P. M. 

Oyster Parlors 

H. L. DAY, Proprietor 

We Serve Breakfast from 
7 A. M. Till 11:30 A. M. 

Special Dairy Dishes for 
Lunch and Dinner 

352 Morrison St. Portland, Ore. 


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RED RIBBON BRAND 


The Best of Everything in Canned Fruits, 
Vegetables, Fish, Etc. 


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MASON- EHRMAN & CO. 

Wholesale Grocers 


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Davis & Davis 

Timber Lands and Logging 

808 Northwestern Eank Building Portia 

r.d, Oregon 


Staples, the Jeweler 

(Optician 

266 Morrison St. Portland, Oregon 



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The Wilcox-Hayes Co. 


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HEAD OFFICE, WILCOX BUILDING 


Portland Iron Works 

PORTLAND, OREGON, U. S. A. 


Northrup Street, Portland, Oregon 

Importers and Exporters 



IMPORTS 

Vegetable Oils and General Oriental Produce 


Manufacturers of 

EXPORTS 



Paper, Lumber, Fertilizers, Heavy Chemicals, 


Sawmill Machinery 

Wheat and Flour 


also 

EXPORT REPRESENTATIVES 


WILLAMETTE IRON & STEEL WORKS 



PORTLAND, OREGON 


Castings and Jobbing Work 

Marine, Deck, lagging and Mining Machinery 

Marine and Stationary Boilers and Auxiliaries 



Cable Address—WILCOX, PORTLAND (ORE.) 


Codes—A B C—5th Improved—Bentley’s—Schofield's 


Prompt Service Our Motto 

Electric—Western Union 


Correspondence Solicited 

Branches at Shanghai, China and Seattle, Washington 




Don’t ask for 
Crackers—say 
Snow Flakes! 



Look for this end 
label on all P. C. 
B. Packages. 


Some More P. C 
Products 

Arrowroot Biscuit 
Assorted Cakes 
Butter Thin 
Cheese Sandwich 
Chocolate Eclair 
Graham Wafers 
Iced Honey Jumbles 
Long Branch Saltine 
Flakes 

jinger Wafers 
darshmallow Sandwich 


A Dainty 
“Crunch” 


when you bite them—a flavor of 
salt on your tongue—the most 
delicious repast will taste better 
because of SNOW FLAKES—- 
crisply fresh — just from the 
aven! 


Pacific Coast Biscuit Company 


Pacific Coast Timber Products 




L. B. MENEFEE 
LUMBER CO. 

LUMBER—TIES—TIMBER—PILING 
University Rite Grade Red Cedar Shingles 

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Portland, Oregon 


New York 


Seattle, Wash. 


D. B. McBride & Co. 

I Importers and Jobbers 1 

FINE WOOLENS AND TAILORS' TRIMMINGS 
DRESSMAKERS’ SUPPLIES 

LADIES’ SUITS I 

Foreign and Domestic | 

| Royal Building, 346% Morrison Street | 

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388 BURNSIDE STREET 


PORTLAND, OREGON 


Solicit Your Business on 


Telephone Installations 
Interphones 
Anti-Noise Phones 
Automatic Systems 

Lighting Installations 
Commercial 
Industrial 
Marine 
Street 


Power Installations 
Complete with sale 
of Motors if Desired 

Manufacturers 
Of Panels, Cabinets, Switch¬ 
boards and a Full Line of 
Electrical Marine Equipment 


It is our business to render Service 
PHONE BROADWAY 84 


COLUMBIA STEEL CO. 

STEEL CASTINGS 

Plants at Portland, Oregon and Pittsburg, California 


San Francisco Office 
503 Market St. 


Portland Office 
10th and Johnson Sts. 


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WOOD MANUFACTURERS 

Car Shippers of Douglas Fir 

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CHEESE 

| Is One of the Nation’s Staple Food Articles i 

| Highly Recommended by Leading Food Experts | 

The Portland Cheese Company 

1 229-1131 Oak Street Portland, Oregon | 



| Are the Leading Wholesale Dealers in this Article 1 

| Also Canned and Smoked Fish, etc. | 

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= Established 1876 | 

E. H. Rollins & Sons 

I Investment Bonds | 


Boston, New York, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, 
Portland, Philadelphia 


| 411-412 U. S. NATIONAL BANK BUILDING 

| PORTLAND, OREGON | 

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West Oregon Lumber Company 

| (Linnton P. O.) Portland, Oregon 


18 YEARS IN BUSINESS 


| Shriners and Their Friends Are Welcome to View 1 
1 Our Operations 

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= John P. Winter Robert F. Maguire W. H. Maguire | 

| Winter & Maguire 

| Lawyers | 

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| Title & Trust Building | 

1 PORTLAND, OREGON 

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| Fernwood Dairy I 

Milk, Cream, Butter 
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1 OREGON PACKING I 
COMPANY I 


Canners of 

FRUITS AND 
VEGETABLES 


Main Office: 

EAST SIXTH AND ALDER STREETS 


Plants Located: = 

VANCOUVER, WASH. 

LEWISTON, IDAHO 
SALEM,OREGON | 

PORTLAND, OREGON 1 

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Our Camp Equipment 
Department contains 
everything that will 
make Camping and 
Touring pleasurable. 


Goldsmith 

Guaranteed 

BASEBALL 

TENNIS 

and Athletic Supplies 


McGREGOR 
GOLF CLUBS 


Dux-Bak and Kamp-It 
Outing Clothes 

For Men and Women 


High-Grade Fishing Tackle 
etc., etc. 


Note: We have just remodeled 
our golf, tennis and clothing 
department, making it possible 
for both men and women to 
shop with ease and comfort. A 
saleslady is in attendance to 
care for the wants of the ladies. 


Honeyman Hardware Company 

FOURTH AT ALDER 

Portland’s Largest Sporting Goods Store 


R. B. MILLER, President W. M. GRIER, Vice-President 

G. M. McDOWELL, Secretary and Treasurer 


MILLER GRIER 
COMPANY 

RAILROAD 

CONTRACTORS 




General Offices Northwestern Bank Building 

PORTLAND, OREGON 











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AN INSTITUTION 

A GREAT financial enterprise deserves to be known as an institution after it has de¬ 
voted itself, unreservedly, to the best interests of those it serves in its particular line of 
endeavor, and after its standard of leadership has become of such recognized quality that 
similar enterprises are judged and gauged in comparison with the standard it has set; when 
others follow in the footsteps of its precedents and its methods, and its policies become the 
inspiration for men engaged in similar pursuits. 

For over a quarter century we have met our obligations 
to clients and investors with the conviction that we were en¬ 
gaged in a worth-while business—one that plays an im¬ 
portant part in the happiness, prosperity and future of many 
people; and plays that part in a greater measure, perhaps, 
than ■ any other business, because it deals with a com¬ 
modity which represents the residue of everything material 
that man gets out of life. That commodity is money. 

In essense it represents man’s work—his ideas and plans, 
has brawn and his brain. 


It has always been our 
others to conserve their 
money, after all, is only 
form. Yes, we have gone 
every effort to not only 
but to see that a liberal 
coming upon it; that the 
we sell are the safest and 


earnest hope that we might assist 
financial accumulations, because 
stored-up energy in a different 
farther tfian that. We have made 
conserve that stored-up energy, 
and profitable return was forth- 
government and municipal bonds 
best obtainable. 


Like many truly worth-while things, we began in a modest 
way, laying the foundation for the future slowly and care¬ 
fully. We believed that we must be able to creep before 
we could walk and that the sturdiness of our growth and 
the permanency of our leadership depended upon our con¬ 
stant devotion to the high principles to which we had dedi¬ 
cated our efforts. We knew that that which deserves to live 
lives, and, if our enterprise were conceived upon the right 
understanding of our relationship to the order of things, 
then we would prosper and succeed; we would enjoy the 
confidence of all and be honored by ail. 

We hope that during the coming years our usefulness in 
our field of endeavor may become larger and larger, and 
that our standard of quality and service may accrue to your 
benefit in some form or other. 


MORRIS BROTHERS. Inc. 

The Premier Municipal Bond House 

CAPITAL ONE MILLION DOLLARS 

Morris Building, 309-11 Stark Street, Between Fifth and Sixth Streets 
Telephone: Broadway 2151 Established Over a Quarter Century 

Portland, Oregon 



Published by Portland Press Club 


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LIBERTY 


Direction 

Jensen-Von Herb erg 


Photoplays of 
Quality 


COLUMBIA 
MAJESTIC 
PEOPLES 
STAR 


Greetings to Members of the 

PORTLAND PRESS CLUB 
















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F. C. Stettler 

Manufacturing Co. 

Oregon, Occident and East Irving Streets 


M anufac tu re rs 

PAPER BOXES 

Cartons and Labels 


Lithographers and Color Printers 


The Whitney 
Company 

Owners and Operators of Timber Lands Since 1856 


LUMBER 


Logging operations at Idaville; Sawmill at 
Garibaldi, Tillamook County, Oregon 


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| Inman - Poulsen 
Lumber Co. 

I OREGON PINE LUMBER | 

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Annual Capacity ISO Million Feet | 



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Overbeck & Cooke 

Company 

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( WARREN BROTHERS COMPANY | 

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1 THE WARREN ITE-BITULITHIC PAVEMENT JJ 

^ The Pavement that Has Stood the Test of Time and All Kinds of S 

^ Traffic Conditions With Lower Maintenance Cost Than Other Types. 

== T 3 ORTLAND has reason to be proud of this concern. The large amount of business which is obtained throughout 
= the Northwest is handled through Portland, including all the equipment and bitumen for this enormous business. FEE 

Its machine shops, located in Portland, give employment to an average of 100 men and turn out on an average of === 
== $250,000 worth of boilers, paving plants, and machine parts. Over the docks controlled by the company is an- == 

= nually handled thousands of tons of bitumen, providing employment for from 75 to 100 men per season. Extensive FEE 

= offices and laboratories provide employment for as many more salaried employees. Most certainly the company is = 

=; a big part of the industrial life of Oregon, apart from the work it actually has under contract in the state. jj| 


We will be pleased to show our roads and pavements to anyone interested. 



| Newspaper and Magazine 
1 PRINTING SERVICE 


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Choicest Columbia River 
and Alaska 


SALMON 


Also Pickled and Frozen Columbia River Salmon 
Frozen Shad and Sturgeon 


Our Brands 

Columbia River Fancy Chinooks 

Kinney, Epicure, Royal Seal, Pine Burr, Blue Bird, White Star, 
Magnolia, Holly, Palm 

Fancy Red Alaska 

Esquimaux, Argonaut, Recruit 


I COLUMBIA RIVER PACKERS | 

I Astoria ASSOCIATION Oregon ! 



= FA DOUTY J. S. TAYLOR WM. L. FRIES 

H President Vice President Treasurer 


S. G. BOTTUM 
Secretary 


U. S. LUMBER and BOX CO. 

PORTLAND, OREGON J 

Rail and Cargo Buyers and Shippers of §| 

LUMBER and BOX SHOOKS | 

SPRUCE, DOUGLAS and RED FIR, HEMLOCK, WESTERN WHITE PINE | 

M Direct Selling Representatives of All the Mills Being Operated by the If 

1 MULTNOMAH LUMBER & BOX COMPANY, AMERICAN EXPORT LUMBER j 
COMPANY and DOUTY LUMBER COMPANY 

H Combined Daily Capacity, 700,000 Feet H 


= We have well established selling connections in all the principal markets and solicit the selling account of all mills and box factories = 
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Hurley-Mason 

Company 

Established 1904 

DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS 



Tacoma Portland Spokane Seattle 


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I LUMBER CO. I 

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| St. Johns, Portland, Oregon 

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| The Prosperity of | 
| Any Community | 

<[_ Depends greatly upon its mode of transpor- g 

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Our highways are rapidly assuming a major 
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g use of large, fast-moving trucks, which cause rz 

g rapid deterioration in any but the most durable g 

g types of surface. g 

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g trusted with work so important to the public 

g welfare. g 

g Our many years of experience and corps of trained g 
g assistants have built an enviable reputation for high class g 
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OSKAR HUBER 

g 227 Sherlock Building, Portland, Oregon g 

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Breakfast Luncheon Dinner 


St. Nicholas Cafeteria 

125 Sixth Street 

PORTLAND, OREGON 


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Portland Railway, Light and Power 
Company 

PORTLAND, --- - OREGON 





Portland Laundrymen’s Club 

OREGON BUILDING 





























Portland’s Largest f 
Furniture Store I 



Tour Credit is Good 



®f)linklet Catkins Company j 


PORTLAND, OREGON 


MAIN OFFICE, 1210-17 YEON BUILDING; CANNERY AT FUNTER BAY, ALASKA 


SALMON BRANDS 

“Sea Rose” “Red Coral” 

HIGH GRADE RED ALASKA 

“Tepee” 

STANDARD MEDIUM RED 

“Buster” “Peasant” 

BEST GRADE PINK 

“Suwanee” 

BEST GRADE CHUM 


WE GUARANTEE OUR BRANDS 


JAS. T. BARRON, President and Manager 


M. G. MUNLEY, Secretary 


C. T. WHITNEY, Manager 









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DAVID C. ECCLES, President , Ogden, Utah CHARLES T. EARLY, Vice President and General Mgr., Portland, Ore. 

OREGON LUMBER COMPANY 

Manufacturers 

WESTERN WHITE PINE, BOX SHOOKS, MOULDINGS, PATTERN STOCK, FINISH, LATH, DOUGLAS FIR AND 
CEDAR, RAILROAD TIMBERS, TIES STRUCTURAL AND MINING TIMBERS 

PLANTS 

DEE, BAKER, BATES and AUSTIN, OREGON 
SALES OFFICE: 

Lumber Exchange Bldg., Chicago, Ill. 

McKnight Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. 

Eccles Bldg., Ogden, Utah 

VAST ACREAGE OF TILLABLE STUMP LANDS WILL BE SOLD DIRECT TO THOSE DESIRING TO MAKE A 
HOME. TERMS AND LOW RATE OF INTEREST WILL BE EXTENDED ALL HOMEMAKERS. INQUIRIES GIVEN 

PROMPT ATTENTION 


GENERAL OFFICE: 1011 YEON BLDG., PORTLAND, OREGON 


PORTLAND CORDAGE COMPANY 

Manufacturers of All Kinds, Sizes and Grades of 


Manila and Sisal Rope 

Also Lath Yarns, Tarred and Untarred; Box and Bale Twines; Transmission and Set Works Rope 
A Home Industry with Home Labor. Service Directly to Our Patrons, Indirectly to the Community. 


FACTORIES 

PORTLAND, OREGON, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 


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John Y. Richardson & Co. 

Certified Public Accountants 


INCOME TAX CONSULTANTS 


| Member American Institute of Accounts | 

1 Telephone Main 8231 | 

CONCORD BUILDING PORTLAND, OREGON 

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smart dresser. We sell | 

KUPPENHEIMER I 

GOOD CLOTHES | 

“Garments from master tailors” § 

LION QUALITY SUITS [ 

Also, everything in Men’s § 

Furnishings | 

LION CLOTHING CO. I 

Exclusive Kuppenheimer House in | 

Portland | 

S. & H. Stamps Given | 

MORRISON AT FOURTH | 

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I SALMON I 

“Crown” Brand Rogue River Chinook 

I A warded Gold Medal Panama-Pacific | 

I Exhibition I 



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1 Packers I 

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1 N o. 1—291 WASHINGTON STREET Perkins Hotel Bldg. | 

| N0 . 2—375 WASHINGTON ST., apposite Telegram. 

I NO. 3—103 BROADWAY. 


R. J. GRIESEL, Proprietor 


Main 8481 


Wisconsin Logging & Lumber Co. i 

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555 Sherlock Building 


Portland, Oregon — 


Portland and Suburban Coal Company 

Phones: Broadway 2022 and 2023 
41 North Front Street 

Mine Agents 

GENUINE ROCK SPRINGS COAL 

Honest Coals, Honest Prices, Honest Deliveries 


Gilbert L. Hedges 

A ttorney-at-Law 

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familiar name in the lyceum, 
bie music and Chautauqua 
world whether you are in 
Walla Walla, Wn. or Wagga 
Wagga, Australia, New Iber¬ 
ia, La. or New Zealand, Win- 
nemucca, Nevada or Winne- 
peg, Alberta. Operating 
under three flags—on two 
hemispheres. 

Home office: 

Portland 

Branch offices: 

Chicago. Boise. Calgary. Auckland. N. Z. 


Phone Main 497 

Holland, Briggs & 
Noyes 

Timber Lands, Logs, Piling 
Spars and Poles 


Yeon Building 
PORTLAND, OREGON 


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Cameron-Hogg 
Lumber Company 

MILLS AT BULL RUN 


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PAINTS 

BUILDING MATERIALS 


All kinds of Dress Lumber 


Offices: 

814 SPALDING BUILDING 



Now in new factory: 

MACADAM AND GAINES STREETS 

Store: 

SECOND, BETWEEN YAMHILL AND TAYLOR 


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A. Rupert Company, Inc. 

Extends its compliments to the Portland Press Club, and takes this opportunity of again calling to the attention of 
its members the following facts regarding this Company: 

It sells Oregon Fruits under an Oregon Label. 

It is now the largest independent canning organization in the Northwest. 

It brings annually approximately two million Eastern dollars to Oregon farmers. 

It has added many thousands of dollars to farm values in Western Oregon alone. 

It owns and operates six canneries in Oregon, more Ilian any other one concern. 

It takes pride in the fact that it has helped standardize and stabilize the canning industry 
in Oregon. 

A. RUPERT COMPANY, INC, 

Canners, Packers, Distributors, Exporters 

Seattle Main Office, Portland, Oregon San Francisco 




Helser Machine Works 

DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS OF 

Cargo Winches and Hawser Reels, Marine Machinery 


GENERAL REPAIR WORK 


493-5-7-9 North Twenty-Third Street, Between York and Reed Streets 
Both Phones: A-7218; Broadway 731 





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Albina Engine & Machine Works 

WM, CORNFOOT, Proprietor 


Repair Work of all Kinds to Machinery and Engines 


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Oregon City Woolen Mills 


/~\N the site of an old Hudson Bay Stockade stands the present Oregon City 
Woolen Mills., the largest of its kind West of the Mississippi and the only one 
thus located which has gained wide distribution of its products east of the “Father 
of Waters.” 

c. In 1864 plans were drawn for the Oregon City Woolen Mills, and machinery 
procured. Capital was supplied by the Oregon City citizens, and soon the power or 
the famous Willamette Falls was harnessed and successfully producing the widely- 
known Oregon City blankets. 

c Under the aggressive guidance of their present owners, sons of the founders and 
pioneers of the woolen industry of the Northwest, the Oregon City Woolen Mills 
have taken the lead in the weaving of fine Indian Blankets, Motor Robes, Overcoats, 
Mackinaws, Shirts, Cassimeres and Flannels, which stand supreme throughout the 
world It may be well to note here that Jacobs’ Oregon City Woolens have received 
the highest awards wherever exhibited—first at the Philadelphia Centennial in 1876, 
and last at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, at San Francisco in 1915. 

H The present payroll of the Oregon City Woolen Mills amounts to a quarter of a 
million a year. The branches of the concern are located in New York City, Chicago, 
Minneapolis, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle. 

H Mr. A. R. Jacobs, President, and his business associates have been responsible 
for the progress made by the Woolen Mills within the last few years, and by their 
national publicity campaigns in the leading magazines of the country have brought 
the world’s attention to the great possibilities of the wool industry in Oregon. 





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— High-Light Haftone — =- 

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Established 1904 

KRAUSSE BROTHERS 

Our Business Location 

WHOLESALE SHOES 61-63 Fifth Street 

PORTLAND, OREGON 

We Sell 

Everything in Shoes, in the Best Lines Made. Coast Agents 
for J. E. Tilt’s and Avon-Stratfords 

Our Slogan 

Quality of Merchandise and Excellence of Service 
When in Need of Shoes Buy of Us 
The Largest Sock on the Pacific Coast; Can Supply Your 
Wants for Less than Factory Cost Today 






























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SANBORN CUTTING CO 


Salmon Packers 


Canaries: 

Astoria, Oregon 
Kake, Alaska 


Main Office: 

Astoria, Oregon 


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CONTRACTORS AND ENGINEERS 

ST. PAUL, MINN. PORTLAND, ORE. 


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hates Reasonable Open to All Physicians 

THE COE MATERNITY HOME 

Twenty-fifth and Lovejoy Main 5990 

PORTLAND, OREGON 

OUR SLOGAN 

“We Have Never Lost a Daddy Yet.” 

“A PART OF OREGON’S ‘FIRST AND FINEST CROP’ 
THE BABY CROP” 



Dr. Coe With Three “Blue Ribbon” Babies 


HERE’S WISHING YOU, ONE, OR MORE 

VIOLA MAY COE, M. D„ Superintendent 

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Portland Iron Works 

Engineers, Manufacturers 
Established A. D. 1882 

SPECIALTY: 

HIGH-GRADE SAWMILL 
MACHINERY 

For Pacific Coast Sawmills 


Our line is complete, modern and sufficiently varied to meet 
all demands. 

Power Transmitting Appliances of every type and de¬ 
scription. 


CASTINGS AND FORGINGS 
SPECIAL IRON WORK OF EVERY KIND TO ORDER 


Primpt Service and First-class Workmanship Unequivocally 
Guaranteed 


W. J. Zimmerman, President W. S. Zimmerman, Vice President 
W. H. Schmeer, Secretary-Treasurer 

Zimmerman, Wells, 
Brown Co. 

MACHINERY and SUPPLIES 

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Marine, Mining, Wood and Iron Working Machinery 
Nezv and Second-Hand Railroad and Contracting 
Equipment 



SIXTEENTH AND THURMAN STS. PORTLAND, OREGON 


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You Deal in, Let’s Get R tier Acquainted 

Over One Billion Feet of fine Old Yellow Fir 
timber, a service that will satisfy and please, 
and a quality that will bring “repeat” orders. 

Chas. K. Spalding Logging Co. 

General Offices: 804-5-6 Oregonian Bldg., Portland, Oregon 
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Makers of Olympic Products Build the West’s 
Modernly Equipped Cereal and Feed Mill 

The resources of a great milling organization of long-standing 
in tlie Northwest, were placed at the disposal of a national feed 
authority in order to make the Olympic Feed and Cereal Mill 
the finest on the Pacific Coast. 

In the mill, guess work and haphazard methods are done away 
with. The entire mill is virtually one automatic machine, 
capable of turning out .50 100-pound bags of feed perminute. 

Every operation from emptying the cars of grain to loading 
them again with the sacked feed—cleaning, grading, grinding, 
and automatically sewing the sacks—makes one continuous 
or cutting, proportioning by accurate weight, mixing, weighing 
process. 

This new Olympic Mill is a fit monument to a most important 
industry of the Northwest, manufacture of Stock Feeds. 



The Portland Flouring Mills Company 

Portland, Oregon 


OLYMPIC MILLS 

Portland, Ore.; 2 Mills 
Tacoma, Washington 
Everett, Washington 
Spokane, Washington 
Odessa, Washington 
Harrington, Washington 
Prescott, Washington 
Lind, Washington 
Dayton, Washington 
Albany, Oregon 



Kerr’s Rolled Oats 


Have a 


Rich, Appetizing, Toasted Flavor 
Pancake Flour, Wheat Flakes, Oatmeal 

Packed in round, dust-proof packages 

Kerr’s Best Patent Flour 
® ® ® 

Manufactured by 

Kerr Gifford & Co. Inc. 

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I A. O. Anderson & Co. | 

- (OREGON CORPORATION) jj 

| PORTLAND, OREGON, U. S. A. | 

BRANCHES AT SEATTLE AND SHANGHAI 

H Affiliated Andersen Houses at New York, San Francisco, g 
H Copenhagen and Christiania 

| Ship Owners, Charterers and Brokers 
I Importers and Exporters 

H IMPORTERS of Oriental, Australian and Indian Products, g 
g Oils, Copra, Beans, Peas, Seeds, Tin, Sulphur, etc. 

g EXPORTERS of Oregon Pine, (Douglas Fir), Redwood, g 
g Shooks, Steel Rails, Bars, Plates, Shapes, Wire, Flour g 

s and Grain, Cannel Salmon, Milk, Fruits, etc. g 

s OWNERS of Clarion, Reflection and Leadership Brands of g 
g Alaska Salmon and Exclusive Agents of Packers. 

g Domestic Lumber Department for Carload Sales of jj| 

= Forest Products = 


= Cable Inquiries and Correspondence Solicited = 

g Cable Address: “PACAO” PORTLAND, OREGON g 

= CODES: Bentleys’, Scotts’ 10th Edition, A. B. C. 5th, Western Union = 
= and Western Union 5 Letter Edition 



1 THE I 

I CANADIAN BANK 1 
I OF COMMERCE | 


BANKING 

SERVICE 

This bank provides every facility 
for the prompt and efficient trans¬ 
action of all kinds of banking 
business. 

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Portland Branch Fourth and Stark Streets 
Porti.axd, Oregon 



S. E. HOLCOMB, President 0. F. LAIRD, Secretary 

C. M. POMEROY, Vice President E. T. PETERSON, Treasurer 1 


Established 1885 = 

Multnomah Trunk | 
and Bag Company 

Incorporated M 

Manufacturers of 

Trunks, Traveling Bags, Suit Cases | 

SALESMEN’S SAMPLE TRUNKS 
AND CASES OUR SPECIALTY 



= Phones: Pacific, East 24; Home, B-1024 

| Office 80 E. Water Street Factory 82-86 E. Water Street g 

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Pacific Export Lumber Company 

| CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BLDG., PORTLAND, OREGON, U.S.A. 

Cable Address: “PACEXPORT,” Portland, Oregon 
| The Trade Is Respectfully Requested to Observe that Our 

| TRADE M\FK 

i Is Registered 

EXPORTERS OF 

OREGON PINE 

| (DOUGLAS FIR) 

| FROM OREGON, PUGET SOUND 

| and BRITISH COLUMBIA 

| AND ALL 

PACIFIC COAST FOREST PRODUCTS 

| Schedules Supplied Suitable for Export to Any Part of the 

| World. Quotations Made Either F. O. B. or C. I. F. 

| Domestic Department: Rail Shipments Through R. J. Browne Co. 

| IMPORTERS OF ORIENTAL MERCHANDISE 

| BRANCH OFFICES: 

| American Bank Building 112 Market Street 

= Seattle, Wash. San Francisco, California 

| 15 Williams Street 29 Clements Lane, Lombard St. 

| New York City London, E. C. 








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AT POPULAR PRICES | 


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| “We Deliver the Goods” Phone Broadway 5488 § 

I TRADE IN OREGON | 


I Portland Bolt & Manufacturing Co. \ 

| Bolts, Rods, Upset Rods, Tools, Dies and Forgings 

Building Iron of All Kinds | 

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210 North Fourteenth St. 


Portland, Oregon 


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= The Cheery, Beery Drink = 

1 TOKO | 

I True Loganberry Grape Flavor | 

1 Order WEINHARD’S PURITAN | 

| brand pure fruit flavored carbonated beverages by the case. | 

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| Special Allowance for Return of Case and Bottles | 

Phone your dealer, or call | 

I THE HENRY WEINHARD PLANT I 

1 Broadway 383 PORTLAND, OREGON | 

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1 FRED ROBBINS T - L - HANNING | 

| Phone Broadway 4450 5 

Portland Brazing & Machine Works 

Welders, Engineers, Machinists | 

| 266 GLISAN STREET PORTLAND, OREGON | 

1 Thermit weld your steel castings and forgings, crank shafts, § 

I rudder posts, etc. Thermit is the only process that will give | 

I 100 per cent strength and save time and money by sending | 

I your breakdown work to us for repairs. ‘ | 

i We have the four process plan for repairs; Reinforced brazing, | 

1 Oxy-acetylene welding, Electric welding and Thermit welding. | 

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1 Branches: Seattle, Tacoma, Washington: Portland, Oregon; Van- | 
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I Main Store: 216 Second Avenue South, Seattle, Wash. 


M. FURUYA CO. 

(Portland Branch) 

Importers and Exporters 
Phones: Broadway 1421; Home A-1427 
49-’51-53 North Fourth Street Portland, Oregon 


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M. VERNON PARSONS 

REPUBLICAN 

Only Soldier Candidate for Secretary of State 
Qualified byi long, successful business training. 


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1 Residence Phone East 4657; Residence 719 Weidler Street 

1 Phones: A-I233; Main 7423 | 

I DR. H. R. CUFF 

| 420 MORGAN BUILDING | 

g Office Hours II to 12 A. M.; 2 to 5 P. M. 1 

1 PORTLAND, OREGON | 

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Specialized Service 

In the woods shown below is what we offer Eastern buyers. 

I We are wholesalers and directly represent mills having a 1 

| combined capacity of | 

| Fir, Spruce, Noble Fir and West Coast 1 

Products 1 

500,000 Feet Daily 
Gerlinger-Anderson Company 

Write Us About Your Future Needs in West Coast Woods 
| 506 GERLINGER BUILDING PORTLAND, OREGON 1 

g Louis Gerlinger, Jr. H. J. Anderson Geo. T. Gerlinger | 

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Lawyers Title and 
Trust Company 

H. GORDON, President 

MORTGAGE LOANS 
REAL ESTATE 
ABSTRACTS 
TITLE INSURANCE 
ESCROWS 
TRUSTS 



285 Stark Street Gordon Building 


$2 

MODERN DAIRY 

Milk, Cream, Butter and Eggs 

Phones: Broadway 4758; 579-14 
326-328 DAVIS STREET 


Liberty Coal and 
Ice Co. 


Best Grades of 


Utah, Wyoming and 
Washington 

COAL 


21 East Third Street, Corner Ash East 629 


BRIDGES, DOCKS, PILEDRIVING, SEWERS, WATER WORKS 
HIGHWAYS 

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Elliott & Scoggin 

General Contractors 
and Engineers 

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Hanley Employment Agency 

F. J. HANLEY, Proprietor 

Offices: Portland, Oregon 

Seattle, Washington 
Spokane, Washington 
Great Falls, Montana 
Minneapolis, Minnesota 


Connections with leading employ went agencies in all large cities 
in the west and mtddle west. 


Portland Offices: 28 North Second Street Both Phones 


HTHE HANLEY EMPLOYMENT AGENCY furnished nearly all the laborers for the -construction work on Camp Lewis for 
government contractors, and also laborers for building the cantonment at Camp Custer, Michigan. P. J. Hanley, proprietor of 
the company, supervised the employment of labor for the construction of government buildings and docks by Porter Bros., in 
Norfolk, Virginia, during the emergency. He also supervised 29 employment offices in various parts of the United States which 
were operated exclusively for the purpose of securing positions for ex-service men. In these offices 250,000 ex-soldiers were 
furnished employment free of charge. In connection with this patriotic work, Mr. Hanley managed 16 Every Man’s Clubs, 
where wholesome recreation and literature were provided. 



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DEPOSITORS 


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OFFICERS OF THE BANK 

President; EDGAR H. SENSENICH, Vice President; 
WILLIAM D. STUBBS, Assistant to the President; 

■ FRANK O. BATES, Assistant Cashier; WALTER I 


NATIONAL BANK 

OREGON 


The NORTHWESTERN J|§J 

PORTLAND 


Service Covering the Northwest and Encircling the Globe 


HISTORY OF OUR GROWTH 


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DEPOSITS 

1913 . $ 2 , 473 , 926.92 

1911 .. 3 , 768 , 538.85 

1915 .. 8 , 620 , 173.55 

1916 .-. 10 , 564 , 846.77 

1917 ..... 13 , 693 , 681.04 

1918 .-. 20 , 943 , 049.67 

1919 ....-. 27 , 211 , 815.72 




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| Office and Machine Shop, Hawthorne Avenue and | | 
East Third Street | i 

Phones: East 29; Automatic 211-45 1 

| Foundry and Pattern Shop, Union Avenue and 1 
I East Stevens Street | 

Phones: East 13; Automatic 211-51 1 

| Phoenix Iron Works I 

ENGINEERS 

Founders, Machinists and 
Boiler Makers 

CASTING AS LARGE AS 15-TON EACH 1 
1 CAPACITY 

1 Building Work, Repair Work Given Prompt | 

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(Established 1874) 

Cable Address, BROWN, PORTLAND 

Codes: Scott’s 85-96-06, Western Union, 
Watkins 84-1900 

Brown & McCabe 

STEVEDORES 

(Incorporated) 

OREGON and WASHINGTON 

Ship Mail Promptly Delivered Aboard at All Ports 
No. 35 Second Street, Corner Ash 

PORTLAND, OREGON 

Branch Offices: Port Townsend, Wash., Mount 
Baker Block; Seattle, Wash., 67 Marion Street; 
Tacoma, Wash., Municipal Dock; Aberdeen, Wash., 
412 Wishkah Street; Astoria, Oregon, 468 Bond 
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Earl Clapp Bronaugh 

ARL CLAPP BRONAUGH was born in Cross County, 
Arkansas, February 26, 1866. His parents were Earl 
Clapp Bronaugh and Araminta Payne Bronaugh. His father 
w r as a lawyer, so it was not strange that the son early decided 
to follow the same profession. 

He graduated in the classical course from the College of 
the Pacific, at San Jose, California, in 1888, and then came 
to Portland. He took up the study of law in the University 
of Oregon law 7 school. Graduating and passing the bar exami¬ 
nations in 1890, he began practice the same year. 

From 1900 to 1902, Mr. Bronaugh was a member of the 
Portland City Council. He was judge of the circuit court for 
Multnomah County from 1907 to 1910, resigning from the 
bench in June of the latter year to resume professional 
practice. In politics Mr. Bronaugh is a Republican. 

A member of both Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity and 
Phi Delta Phi, the college legal fraternity, Mr. Bronaugh 
also is active in lodge and fraternal circles. 

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Edited by 

Franklin O. Schroeder 


Printed by 

The Arcady Press & Mail Advertising Company 


Engravings by 
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West Coast Engraving Co. 
Oregon Engraving Co. 


Photographs by 

Bushnell 

Markham 

Rose City Studio 

Angelus Commercial Studio 


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